SGI: hinv

I picked this Octane 2 up off ebay a couple years ago. The seller was asking $800 and I "offered" $400 thinking he wouldn't go for it - he did. The seller claimed to have worked for Enron although not with the computer. He said a friend worked in the lab where it was used for molecular modeling. It shipped with a spaceball which I never used but supposedly was used in the Enron lab. I can't confirm anything he said but the hardware did have Enron id tags and appears to be legit. Originally it came with a dual 300mhz configuration. I swapped it out for the dual 600's a month ago - it made a big difference in terms of speed. You can see in some of the pics that UPS did their usual shipping handling with these. The monitors took a beating during shipping and I literally poured them out of their boxes. They could of been packed a bit better but UPS beat the s**t out of the boxes, I'm guessing cause they were heavy. I filed a claim and they sent a stooge out to look and take pics. They then denied the claim. I tried to put them back together as best I could. I still have a box of small pieces I'm saving for a cold, snowy day this winter. Thanks for looking!






















Yes, I do need to clean up the cables under the desk. This winter the whole setup's going to get cleaned up with all the wires cleanly run.

corporate gear usually is a good deal. most have been taken good care of and sometimes there's stuff left on the disk(s)

How neat and tidy is your setup.. NICE!

foetz wrote: sometimes there's stuff left on the disk(s)

Here in italy we have a law that says YOU MUST wipe everything (especially if confidential, or under copyright) in the hard drive, or simply destroy the hard drive throwing it into a smasher machine.

There is, of course, a business about those smasher machines, because they are expensive and you are obliged to have a piece of paper in where a company is declaring your confidential data (or your customers confidential data) is gone destroyed.

e.g. when my university decided to put the Indy Lab (we didn't have other SGI machines, just Indys) out of her inventory, they called a recycle company and they signed a paper assuring the university that everything related to the digital information would be smashed, and so they did. I have seen them through my window, because I was working there like "assistant" in another computer lab (Matlab, numerical applications).

So, Irix 6.5.14, and everything installed there and everything in the Indy's Lab went smashed, including a copy a working copy of Pro/E with license. Damn!

I was only able to save just one Xterm by Tektronix (they had 20 units, 19 of them gone destroyed), but without the PSU and without any software. Ironically I found the PSU and an original CD with TekXpress(1) on an exchange-fair located in germany.

And an one year later, I found the Pro/E-R17 original CD, of course without a license, while, AH-HA, my university had an earlier version.

(1) it's specific to Xterm by Tektronix, basically it's an X11 client + apps like telenet, it runs on the Xterm, and it's MIPS3_BE/COFF, it's very hard to be found. I was lucky, even if … I payed 50 euro for both PSU & CD

uunix wrote: How neat and tidy is your setup.. NICE!

sure, I envy the DCD + 2xLCD env

Vladio wrote: … worked in the lab where it was used for molecular modeling ...

did you find any interesting apps on the are drive about that ?

It only came with one drive and it wasn't the original from Enron. It was reformatted but not 0'ed out so I was able to go through it. It was from Hertz car rental in Las Vegas. Nothing good on it. I was thinking, the original disk might of been confiscated or someone knew that it was best destroyed.

Vladio wrote: I was thinking, the original disk might of been confiscated or someone knew that it was best destroyed

Understood, the same happens here, in italy.

p.s.
I have spoken with a dude from Ducati , and he confirmed they have destroyed everything when they switched from SGI/Irix to PC/Windows. Damn, an other good occasion lost, they were using CATIA and a lot of things from Alias-wavefront on their machines.

ivelegacy wrote: I have spoken with a dude from Ducati , and he confirmed they have destroyed everything when they switched from SGI/Irix to PC/Windows. Damn, an other good occasion lost, they were using CATIA and a lot of things from Alias-wavefront on their machines.

That's a shame. Kawasaki prob would of paid good money for those files. They can prob still get them from the Chinese.

uunix wrote: How neat and tidy is your setup.. NICE!

The wires under the counter are really f'n with my ocd!

Vladio wrote:

uunix wrote: How neat and tidy is your setup.. NICE!

The wires under the counter are really f'n with my ocd!

And that's why I never look under my desk.

uunix wrote:

Vladio wrote:

uunix wrote: How neat and tidy is your setup.. NICE!

The wires under the counter are really f'n with my ocd!

And that's why I never look under my desk.

I can't not see that mess! it jumps right out at me as soon as I walk in.

An Enron SGI? You'd better check that the power is regulated.

nice posters of fairchild and steve&steve

guardian452 wrote: nice posters of fairchild and steve&steve

To the left of the Steve's I have a nice pic of Eckert & Mauchly in the computer lab of the University of Pennsylvania.

You seem to have the same CD-ROM(Yamaha) as mine but in a different box. Does yours support software inject? (what happens if you enter "inject" in a shell prompt?)

nongrato wrote: You seem to have the same CD-ROM(Yamaha) as mine but in a different box. Does yours support software inject? (what happens if you enter "inject" in a shell prompt?)

IRIS 1# inject
inject: Software inject not supported. Use hardware inject.
IRIS 2#

I think I still have the original drive from Enron somewhere. I'll look for it tomorrow...I believe "inject" worked with it.

Vladio wrote: Software inject not supported.

Same here. That's strange because this cdrom worked fine with my Octane1.

Vladio wrote: monitor

I like the dual carrier you have, it allows to have two LCDs on the same frame … umm is it a custom frame or a commercial one ? I'd like to pick up one.

ivelegacy wrote: I like the dual carrier you have, it allows to have two LCDs on the same frame … umm is it a custom frame or a commercial one ? I'd like to pick up one.

Based on the shape of the stand, it looks like an Ergotron DS100. Ergotron makes the DS100 in a number of multi-monitor configurations from dual ( vertical or horizontal ) to quad .

I have dual and quad versions , the expanded desktop makes it very easy to keep track when multiple applications are run at the same time. The base is very heavy (to serve as a counterweight), so in spite of the top-heavy appearance of the four-monitor arrangement it's very stable.

They can occasionally be found used on eBay for a reasonable price, but typically the listings are new products at full msrp, or used setups that include the price of monitors.

There's a dual version listed on US eBay with a buy-it-now price of $24 (plus shipping): http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ergotron-DS100- ... 1869835475

so kind, thank you =)

Recondas is spot on with his info. I've never used one prior to getting this but I do like it. It keeps the monitors at the perfect height. $24 is a steal! (Didn't see the shipping) I noticed a lot of ebay sellers don't ship to Italy...why is that?