(OT) Sgi Indy

From: Zane H. Healy <healyzh_at_aracnet.com>
Date: Tue Jul 17 22:47:57 2001

> Thanks to eBay and a couple of list members, I now have my Indy up and
> running and on the 'net using my ISDN router as the gateway. I can also
> ping my office network through the other router. I'm currently running
> IRIX 6.5. It has a R4400SC 150mhz cpu, 192mb ram, a 24bit graphics
> card, Granite kb, mouse and 20" Trinitron monitor, a 2gb hard drive and
> an Indycam. I'm building an external SCSI box to house a DAT drive, the
> CD-ROM, a CD-R drive and a 2gb option drive. Now I need to find a
> Presenter, a Cosmo board, a 10/100 GIO ethernet card, the XZ graphics
> board and floptical drive to have a fairly complete system. It looks
> good sitting on my desk next to the NeXT TC slab.

I'm more than a little green with envy!

> Now for my next project, to get the Sparc Station 5's I bought the other
> day up and running!

Um, I hope you got RAM with those systems. If not unless they're 5/110's or
5/170's you're probably better off sticking them on eBay and putting the
money towards a Sparc 10 or 20. Simply put Sparc 5 RAM costs and arm and a
leg unless you get lucky! Only RAM I've found that's worse is
AlphaStation 500/333 RAM (I've got both a Sparc 5/70, and a AS500/333).

                        Zane
Received on Tue Jul 17 2001 - 22:47:57 BST