>I highly doubt any pc anything would fit inside one of the O2 cases. Everything
>SGI makes is beyond proprietary ... but if you still want to try, I'd suggest
>getting on the newsgroups and asking around. I doubt many people would just
>have an extra case laying around .. but you may get lucky.
it happens. we had an extra one where i work for awhile but we traded it
back to sgi for some other h/w. i can tell you that you will not
be able to fit a PC m/b into an O2, and you wouldn't want to...if you've
ever seen the inside of an O2 you'd understand why...there is only room
for one pci slot, and you can only stick it in a precise location *parallel*
to the motherboard. those things are extremely well designed, however, when
you are filling them with sgi bits. all modular and snap-out, no screws on
the thing that i can find. it would be a travesty to try to cram a PC
into it...and i say that merely because PC hardware is so crappy compared
to what workstation mfg's are doing these days, and the O2 is cheap and
sturdy, and extremely functional.
all that said, why not build yourself a case out of legos? whatever size
you need, whatever color/shape you want. within your price range, etc =)
you'll want to superglue most of it together for stability if you ever
move the thing tho.
>Keep in mind that the O2's even used still go for about 5k ...
bullshit. they go for $5k new if you buy them with minimum h/w (17" monitor,
32M ram (not enough to be useful, really), 2G disk). UT gets 64M/20" monitor
for $4k, educational discount. and those prices are a year old, so probably
they're even cheaper now.
of course, you could buy a used one w/o monitor for probably $2.5k, and it
would be worthwhile if you're into graphics and have a nice PC monitor already.
(they use standard PC type monitors, ps/2 kbd+mouse)
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