Hi Tony, It's an IBM Intellistation A, type 6217 (according to wikipedia). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_IntelliStation#IntelliStation_A_Pro
I'm not sure of the exact processor model, but I'll fire it up this evening and investigate. Cheers, Calum On 25 January 2015 at 15:43, Tony Travis <tony.tra...@abdn.ac.uk> wrote: > 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 >
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