SGI: Hardware

SGI Equipment available in Seattle

Folks-

It looks like WinXP and I are going to reach EOL together; after a 20-year battle with cancer, I've signed up for in-home hospice care.

As a result, I have a pile of SGI and associated equipment I'd like to pass along to someone who can still use it.

It's a large pile:

SGI Indigo2: Purple R10k-195, MaxImpact, 768MB RAM, nice plastic, IRIX 6.5.22. Battery is dead, but it will boot through the maintenance menu.

SGI O2: Mid-range spec, but I think it has the high-end A/V module. IRIX 6.5.30, boots and runs fine. Plastic good except CD-ROM drive door missing.

SGI Octane: Single processor, dual graphics modules, good plastic, IRIX 6.5.30.

External peripherals: About a dozen Sun and SGI external cases (411, 611, etc.) suitable for all sorts of SCSI devices. Some open-face, some closed, etc. I think there's an SGI SCSI floppy drive in a granite case.

Cables: A large collection of external SCSI cables.

Drives: A bunch of those, too, including some 36 GB SCA drives.

Parts, books: Yep. A couple or three Granite keyboards and mice. Large box of IRIX installation CDs. Much etc.

I'd love for this to go together. I can't ship it; it's SGI stuff, it weighs a ton, and I'm not really in shape to take it anywhere. It'll all fit in a station wagon; getting it in a compact sedan might be a challenge.

Contact me off-list to arrange pick up on Bainbridge Island, across Puget Sound from downtown Seattle.

Thanks.

-Shel
shel at artell dot net
most depressing thing I read today.
:Onyx2:
I know its off topic, apologize a head of time, but I just wanted to say something.

Fuck cancer. No one should ever have to deal with something like cancer. Sorry to hear this.

I hope your computers go to a good home.
Stuff.
zmttoxics wrote: I know its off topic, apologize a head of time, but I just wanted to say something.

Fuck cancer. No one should ever have to deal with something like cancer. Sorry to hear this.

I hope your computers go to a good home.


Can only echo these sentiments. Extremely saddening whenever you hear of fellow enthusiasts on a small community like this suffering such terrible health issues, and having to give up their hobbies and passions as a result. I hope you get fantastic care.
:Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane2: :O200:
Too bad to hear that. Glad you had a few good years in Provence.

The Tandem still pulls well when I have it in harness, though I haven't had any requests from people to use it in a while.
Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Living proof that you can't keep a blithering idiot down.

:Indigo: :Octane: :Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :PI: :O3x0: :ChallengeL: :O2000R: (single-CM)
shel wrote: Folks-

It looks like WinXP and I are going to reach EOL together

good you kept the humor :D
and i'd take the machines as well if i were not across the ocean :-/
I know we have some members in Seattle (kjaer?).

I'm really sorry to hear about hospice. 20 years is the good fight, at least. :(
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
You sir are inspiration. We should all be so lucky to face cancer with the same bravery and humor as you when the time comes.
:Indigo2IMP: extreme :Octane2: V8 :O200: :Onyx2: IR2e
silicium wrote: Fight cancer http://gerson.org/gerpress/

Is that supposed to be a joke?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Gerson#Evidence
Not very funny!
:Onyx2R: :IRIS3130: :Onyx2: :O2000: :O200: :PI: :Fuel: :Indigo: :Octane: :O2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indigo2: :Indy: :1600SW: :pdp8e:
:BA213: <- MicroVAX 3500 :BA213: <- DECsystem 5500 :BA215: <- MicroVAX 3300
Pictures of my collection: www.pdp8.se
shel wrote: Folks-

It looks like WinXP and I are going to reach EOL together; after a 20-year battle with cancer, I've signed up for in-home hospice care.

As a result, I have a pile of SGI and associated equipment I'd like to pass along to someone who can still use it.

It's a large pile:

SGI Indigo2: Purple R10k-195, MaxImpact, 768MB RAM, nice plastic, IRIX 6.5.22. Battery is dead, but it will boot through the maintenance menu.

SGI O2: Mid-range spec, but I think it has the high-end A/V module. IRIX 6.5.30, boots and runs fine. Plastic good except CD-ROM drive door missing.

SGI Octane: Single processor, dual graphics modules, good plastic, IRIX 6.5.30.

External peripherals: About a dozen Sun and SGI external cases (411, 611, etc.) suitable for all sorts of SCSI devices. Some open-face, some closed, etc. I think there's an SGI SCSI floppy drive in a granite case.

Cables: A large collection of external SCSI cables.

Drives: A bunch of those, too, including some 36 GB SCA drives.

Parts, books: Yep. A couple or three Granite keyboards and mice. Large box of IRIX installation CDs. Much etc.

I'd love for this to go together. I can't ship it; it's SGI stuff, it weighs a ton, and I'm not really in shape to take it anywhere. It'll all fit in a station wagon; getting it in a compact sedan might be a challenge.

Contact me off-list to arrange pick up on Bainbridge Island, across Puget Sound from downtown Seattle.

Thanks.

-Shel
shel at artell dot net

So so sad to read this, this is the saddest thing I have ever read on a computer forum.

/michael
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If you use a Microsoft product to read it, you're doing so at your own
risk.
Shel's son Eric informed me this morning that Shel passed away on Sunday.
:OnyxR: :IRIS3130: :IRIS2400: :Onyx: :ChallengeL: :4D220VGX: :Indigo: :Octane: :Cube: :Indigo2IMP: :Indigo2: :Indy:
Rest in peace. :(
smit happens.

:Fuel: bigred , 900MHz R16K, 4GB RAM, V12 DCD, 6.5.30
:Indy: indy , 150MHz R4400SC, 256MB RAM, XL24, 6.5.10
:Indigo2IMP: purplehaze , R10000, Solid IMPACT
probably posted from Image bruce , Quad 2.5GHz PowerPC 970MP, 16GB RAM, Mac OS X 10.4.11
plus IBM POWER6 p520 * Apple Network Server 500 * HP C8000 * BeBox * Solbourne S3000 * Commodore 128 * many more...
kjaer wrote: Shel's son Eric informed me this morning that Shel passed away on Sunday.


Holy cow - that came pretty quickly after his posting. How very sad :(
:Indigo2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indy: :Octane2: :O200:
I did not know Shel, but it's very sad to see a fellow collector and enthusiast go. My condolences to the family.
:Onyx2R: :IRIS3130: :Onyx2: :O2000: :O200: :PI: :Fuel: :Indigo: :Octane: :O2: :Indigo2IMP: :Indigo2: :Indy: :1600SW: :pdp8e:
:BA213: <- MicroVAX 3500 :BA213: <- DECsystem 5500 :BA215: <- MicroVAX 3300
Pictures of my collection: www.pdp8.se