So, it's been such a long time since I tinkered with my SGI and even visited this site. I've got a fair few SGI boxen, 99.9% of them stuck with my ex-wife. All I've had left for the last 6 years is my 128Mb O2 with SW1600 option display.
Two weeks back I downloaded an app for my phone called SHPOCK. It's a simple location based selling app. I searched SGI and it came back with an interesting result. £30 (UK POUNDS) for Octane 2 with a model number.
Location, London, collection only and I live 100 odd miles away in Birmingham. Someone had asked what it was, the owner replied 'HARD DISK'. I could not get the owner to deliver. So I had to go down. Please note that, this story is in no way a mocking of the sellers, some people know things others know other things etc. So I went down.
Apparently, mother worked at some film studio in London that went bust and was given (legally) the BOX!
I gave them an extra £10 for a takaway or some wine, and put it in the car. I knew (and had told them), that I suspected this machine was worth more than £30, but they'd had no success on ebay, possible comination, they couldn't describe it and they wouldn't deliver.
I took a quick glance as I put the seat belt round it and noticed a few things.. it had 2 DVI outs and a DAT drive. Add that to the fact it was from a film company and my journey home was alight with images of part made films, excellent media softwere etc.
Got home at 9pm and plugged it in..
No root passwd.. excellent, had a look round, found nothing software interesting.
The hinv though...
So £40 (plus fuel) well spent.
I know need to work out how to get different resoultions of my two monitors.
Two weeks back I downloaded an app for my phone called SHPOCK. It's a simple location based selling app. I searched SGI and it came back with an interesting result. £30 (UK POUNDS) for Octane 2 with a model number.
Location, London, collection only and I live 100 odd miles away in Birmingham. Someone had asked what it was, the owner replied 'HARD DISK'. I could not get the owner to deliver. So I had to go down. Please note that, this story is in no way a mocking of the sellers, some people know things others know other things etc. So I went down.
Apparently, mother worked at some film studio in London that went bust and was given (legally) the BOX!
I gave them an extra £10 for a takaway or some wine, and put it in the car. I knew (and had told them), that I suspected this machine was worth more than £30, but they'd had no success on ebay, possible comination, they couldn't describe it and they wouldn't deliver.
I took a quick glance as I put the seat belt round it and noticed a few things.. it had 2 DVI outs and a DAT drive. Add that to the fact it was from a film company and my journey home was alight with images of part made films, excellent media softwere etc.
Got home at 9pm and plugged it in..
No root passwd.. excellent, had a look round, found nothing software interesting.
The hinv though...
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OCTANE 4# hinv -vm
Location: /hw/node
PM20600MHZ Board: barcode MLD086 part 030-1778-001 rev C
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15
IP30 Board: barcode LMF635 part 030-1467-001 rev D
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/15/pci/2
PWR.SPPLY.ER Board: barcode AAE1140055 part 060-0035-002 rev A
FP1 Board: barcode MGL353 part 030-0891-003 rev J
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/13
XTALKPCI Board: barcode MDJ659 part 030-0952-005 rev E
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/11
ODY128VERSIONB Board: barcode LLG968 part 030-1611-001 rev C
Location: /hw/node/xtalk/10
XTALK_PCI Board: barcode MGY465 part 030-1275-004 rev A
2 600 MHZ IP30 Processors
Heart ASIC: Revision F
CPU: MIPS R14000 Processor Chip Revision: 2.4
FPU: MIPS R14010 Floating Point Chip Revision: 0.0
Main memory size: 3584 Mbytes
Xbow ASIC: Revision 1.4
Instruction cache size: 32 Kbytes
Data cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary unified instruction/data cache size: 2 Mbytes
Integral SCSI controller 0: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Disk drive: unit 1 on SCSI controller 0 (unit 1)
Disk drive / removable media: unit 2 on SCSI controller 0: 720K/1.44M floppy
Tape drive: unit 3 on SCSI controller 0: DAT
Integral SCSI controller 1: Version QL1040B (rev. 2), single ended
Integral SCSI controller 2: Version Fibre Channel QL2340, 33 MHz PCI
Integral SCSI controller 3: Version Fibre Channel QL2340, 33 MHz PCI
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty1
IOC3/IOC4 serial port: tty2
IOC3 parallel port: plp1
Graphics board: V12
Integral Fast Ethernet: ef0, version 1, pci 2
Gigabit Ethernet: tg1, PCI slot 1
Iris Audio Processor: version RAD revision 12.0, number 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0003) PCI slot 2
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 0
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x1020) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x10a9, device 0x0005) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x14e4, device 0x1645) PCI slot 1
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x2312) PCI slot 3
PCI Adapter ID (vendor 0x1077, device 0x2312) PCI slot 1
Dual Channel Display
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Graphics board 0 is "ODYSSEY" graphics.
Managed (":0.0") 2560x1024
BUZZ version B.1
PB&J version 1
128MB memory
Banks: 4, CAS latency: 3
Compositor port 0 attached to channel 0 nic 0x1004a768
Monitor 0 type: Unknown
Dual Channel Display option
Monitor 1 type: SNY -19200 Monitor 2 type: VSC 12833
Channel 0:
Origin = (0,0)
Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz (2@1280x1024_60)
Channel 1:
Origin = (1280,0)
Video Output: 1280 pixels, 1024 lines, 60.00Hz (2@1280x1024_60)
So £40 (plus fuel) well spent.
I know need to work out how to get different resoultions of my two monitors.
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