(OT) Sgi Indy

From: Geoff Reed <geoffr_at_zipcon.net>
Date: Wed Jul 18 02:49:40 2001

if you need sparc 5 ram I may ahve some left (I'd have to dig around a bit
to look)



At 08:47 PM 7/17/01 -0700, you wrote:
> > 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 Wed Jul 18 2001 - 02:49:40 BST