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Re: [TCLUG:1943] Parts for SGI Iris Indigo (R3K)



Serge,

Hmm.. it could have been an Indigo 2 or an Indy or something.. I'm not too
experienced with SGI's, this machine was given to me so I could start
getting into them.

-Nate Carlson
 The Infinite Loop
 natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Serge M. Egelman wrote:

> ok, because I saw this machine (I think it was an indigo, but it might not have
> been) in Owre hall at the U, they're redoing the building (most of the people
> there moved into the BSBE building) so people put all their trash in the hall to
> be thrown out.  I saw what I thought was an indigo, it was pretty much gutted,
> but I salvaged a transceiver.  there was also an sca disk in it.  I wanted to
> take the machine, but it was the size of a small fridge and prolly less powerful
> than a 486 (it was over 10 years old).
> 
> serge
> 
> Nate Carlson wrote:
> 
> > Nah, this is one of the _really_ old machines.. it uses a drive sled with
> > two connectors, one for power and one for data apparently.. both
> > connectors are about an inch and a half wide, the power connector is about
> > 1/2" high, and the data connector is about 1/4" high.. it's something
> > SGI-proprietary. I wish it was just SCA.  :P    (I would put all the
> > drives externally, but I was told that I need to have a drive in the
> > bottom bay to terminate it.. so I'm kinda stuck without a sled.)
> >
> > Thanks anyways!
> >
> > -Nate Carlson
> >  The Infinite Loop
> >  natecars@infiniteloop.com
> >
> > On Sun, 25 Oct 1998, Serge M. Egelman wrote:
> >
> > > I think I can get you a drive.  It's SCA so it should work?  It's only like
> > > 180 megs, so tell me if you're interested.
> > >
> > > serge
> > >
> > > Nate Carlson wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hey,
> > > >
> > > > I was just given an old Iris Indigo without any hard drives (or drive
> > > > sleds) and memory.. I'm wondering if anyone has a drive sled or some
> > > > memory (it's the 68-pin SGI stuff) they would like to get rid of. If so,
> > > > please drop me an e-mail.. thanks!
> > > >
> > > > -Nate Carlson
> > > >  The Infinite Loop
> > > >  natecars@infiniteloop.com
> > > >
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