On 25/01/15 15:24, Calum Chisholm wrote: > Hi all, > As I'll soon be skipping the country, I'm having a bit of a clear-out. > > Needing a good home is my trusty IBM workstation. It's a few years old > now (mid-2006 according to the sticker), but it was used until quite > recently for crunching geoscience data within "a big oil company", and > is still a surprisingly capable machine. > > It's a dual-opteron (8 core?) Intellistation A with 16gb RAM. I'll be > removing the hard drives, but it has room for at least 4 internally, as > well as 2 optical drives and plenty of card slots. The video board is a > dual-head Nvidea Quattro - I'm not sure of the exact version, but > presumably a fairly high-end card at the time it was produced given what > it was used for. > > It's worth pointing out that it's not your typical PC World desktop - > it's built like a brick (it's big and heavy!), and the fan noise can be > quite loud, especially on start-up. > > If anyone's interested, let me know and I'll bring it along on Tuesday. > It can be yours in return for a small donation to the space.
Hi, Calum. I'm interested: Which model is it? Bye, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Institute of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Cruickshank Building, St. Machar Drive, Aberdeen AB24 3UU, Scotland, UK. tel +44(0)1224 272700, fax +44 (0)1224 272 396 http://www.abdn.ac.uk, mailto:tony.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, skype:ajtravis The University of Aberdeen is a charity registered in Scotland, No SC013683. Tha Oilthigh Obar Dheathain na charthannas clàraichte ann an Alba, Àir. SC013683. _______________________________________________ 57north-discuss mailing list 57north-discuss@lists.57north.co http://lists.57north.co/listinfo/57north-discuss
