Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On 4/19/16 14:58, Swift Griggs wrote: one of your software vendors. Ugh. Of course, watching SGI under Rick Belluzo (I hated that guy) wasn't much easier. "Ohhh, I'm ex-Microsoft so let's make Windows NT workstations." Ugh, Puh!, Bleh grrraaat idea, guys. I wish the board could be

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jules Richardson wrote: > Ditto. I do like mine. Extra TRAM option, 384MB of RAM, 2x4GB disks. It > gets a little toasty (but it's got the feet for standing it up on its > side, and I think that helps a little with the heat dissipation - plus it > looks a lot nicer! :-) I

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:04 AM, Liam Proven wrote: > Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but did inspire > the name of Windows NT and was the original host platform for the > then-new OS. > The i860 was a neat little bugger. There was an iPSC/860 done by

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On 19 April 2016 at 20:58, Swift Griggs wrote: > >> 12 i860s to run the graphics! How absurd! > > Those processors showed up in the weirdest places. I remember seeing them > on DEC SCSI controllers quite a bit, too. Intel's effort at RISC. Didn't go so well for them, but

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On 04/19/2016 11:22 AM, Ian Finder wrote: If we're rambling about SGIs now, my all time fav. is the Indigo 2 R1000 Max Impact. You see one, and it looks normal enough, but when you pop that cover- there is so much logic packed into that box! It's one of the densest machines I've ever

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

The original Onyx ('Terminator') generally only had 3-phase if it had the VME backplane package added. Mine came from Boeing and had the VME cage (and a bunch of custom hardware of which I have no real understanding what it interfaces to), but it runs just fine on single-phase. Ah okay. For

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Ian Finder wrote: > They're something splendidly entertaining about a big honkin' graphical > workstation that you can roll up to and poke around the GUI on. No doubt. The main thing to me is that they aren't "boring" business machines. They were made to do fun creative

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, et...@757.org wrote: They're something splendidly entertaining about a big honkin' graphical workstation that you can roll up to and poke around the GUI on. Only the Onyx series has graphics :-) Most of ours at NASA were headless with nothing but a serial console, and

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

They're something splendidly entertaining about a big honkin' graphical workstation that you can roll up to and poke around the GUI on. Only the Onyx series has graphics :-) Most of ours at NASA were headless with nothing but a serial console, and lots of CPUs. They crunched satellite data

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

I love the Onyx rack. Ethan wrote: > I think they're the best of the newer large computers They're something splendidly entertaining about a big honkin' graphical workstation that you can roll up to and poke around the GUI on. I have one of the full rack 3-phase ones in Seattle which, like the

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

I agree. I'm just glad I don't have to find the space or lift the damn thing :-) Compared to IBM, Sun big iron, Cray big iron the SGI Origin 2000/Onyx2 and Challenge XL/Onyx are very friendly fridge sized computers! They roll easy, they're lightweight and not overbuilt. They use a simple 220v

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, et...@757.org wrote: > > Glad it was able to be saved, sounds like a neat system, do you have any > > specs on it, that you can share? > Warms my SGI fanboy side to see these systems being saved! I agree. I'm just glad I don't have to find the space or lift the damn thing

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

Very cool, Glad it was able to be saved, sounds like a neat system, do you have any specs on it, that you can share? Warms my SGI fanboy side to see these systems being saved! -- Ethan O'Toole

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

Very cool, Glad it was able to be saved, sounds like a neat system, do you have any specs on it, that you can share? On Mon, Apr 18, 2016 at 1:07 PM, Ian Finder wrote: > Thank you all, and thanks Jay West for this wonderful venue. > > Less than 24 hours later the machine

Re: Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

Thank you all, and thanks Jay West for this wonderful venue. Less than 24 hours later the machine is spoken for, and I'm very excited about where it is going. Another day, another rescue... :) On Sun, Apr 17, 2016 at 10:16 AM, Ian Finder wrote: > Does not require three

Seeking immediate rescue of full-rack SGI ONYX near Northbrook, IL

Does not require three phase. Complete system, includes sirius video and other fun stuff. RealityEngine2 Needs to be gone in a week or two- had made other arrangements but they have fallen through. Call Ian - two two four 659 four two zero 4 -- Ian Finder ian.fin...@gmail.com