Nekonomicon - Onyx R10k IR deskside on the 'Bay

JohnnyJohnny
From Toronto, Canada area
Who joined June 5, 2017, 8:05 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 8, 2017, 6:55 p.m...

Sigh...what are the chances something like this will ever show up in the Toronto area

About the only way I could swing this is to have the seller dismantle it completely and ship it in pieces, or rent a van and drive 20 hours each way!

Drowning in a flood of my own interests...and trying to get at least one thing 100% done.

:Octane2:

Dalplex
Who joined June 10, 2017, 1:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 8, 2017, 7:22 p.m...

Yes. The price is really not bad although it was not bootable.

cinenate35
From Salem Massachusetts
Who joined April 27, 2007, 10:14 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 2:19 a.m...

Where is this Onyx? Didn't see anything in my eBay alerts. Haven't seen an Onyx in a looooong time.

Nate

Dalplex
Who joined June 10, 2017, 1:25 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 3:13 a.m...

Tampa, FL.

Irinikus
From Cape Town, South Africa
Who joined April 27, 2016, 4:25 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 3:24 a.m...

Make use of eBay's Global Search and you will see it.

Here is a screenshot of the listing.

Quad R14K 500MHz, IR3 :Tezro:

Quad R16K 700MHz, 8MB, V12, DCD, DM3 :Octane2:

Dual R14K 600MHz, V12 :O2:

R12K 400MHz :Indigo:

R4400SC 150MHz, ELAN
:320:

Dual 1GHz PIII :Indigo2:

R4400SC 200MHz, Extreme :Indy:

R4400SC 200MHz, XZ :Indy:

R5000SC 150MHz, 24Bit XL.
SUN: JavaStation-10 (Krups), XVR-4000.
DEC: AlphaStation 255/300MHz.
Cray: Cray1: Memory Module, Cray2: Memory Module (complete stack of eight boards) and a power supply module, Cray3: ECL Module.
Apple: G3 Clamshell, G4 Sawtooth, G4 Quicksilver, G4 Mirror Doors, G5, Mac Pro 2013 (Trash can), 27 inch Cinema Display.
IBM: 486 DX-4 100MHz, 32Mb RAM, Creative Soundblaster 16-Bit, 1.44 Mb Disk drive, Creative 4X CD-ROM, 520Mb HDD.
Alienware: Aurora 7500.
Gaming Rig: Coolermaster Cosmos II, Coolermaster Ultimate 1100W Power supply, Asus Rampage III extreme, I7 980X, Corsair H100, 24Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3, EVGA GTX Titan X Super Clocked Edition, OCZ revodrive 3 x2 240gb, Velociraptor 600GB, Corsair 128GB SSD, Creative X-fi Fatality Pro.

cinenate35
From Salem Massachusetts
Who joined April 27, 2007, 10:14 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 3:51 a.m...

Irinikus wrote: Make use of eBay's Global Search and you will see it.

Here is a screenshot of the listing.

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Thanks. I'm in the US so it should have shown up when I searched for "SGI Onyx" but did not. When I searched "SGI Onyx 10000" it showed up. I think eBays iPhone app is broken. I've noticed lately that when I am looking in search results I often see duplicates of the same item several times.

Nate

Irinikus
From Cape Town, South Africa
Who joined April 27, 2016, 4:25 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 4:08 a.m...

Cool!

For those who don't already know, items can often tend to get "lost" on eBay!

Even tough may you think that you are carrying out an eBay-wide search, when you are searching for something using eBay's normal search function. eBay is divided into regions and often items listed in Europe don't tend to show up.

I have bought many systems from Germany at incredibly good prices, as they were not visible to people in the States, using the normal eBay search function.

The use of eBay's "Geo-ship.com" search shows up absolutely everything on eBay.

Quad R14K 500MHz, IR3 :Tezro:

Quad R16K 700MHz, 8MB, V12, DCD, DM3 :Octane2:

Dual R14K 600MHz, V12 :O2:

R12K 400MHz :Indigo:

R4400SC 150MHz, ELAN
:320:

Dual 1GHz PIII :Indigo2:

R4400SC 200MHz, Extreme :Indy:

R4400SC 200MHz, XZ :Indy:

R5000SC 150MHz, 24Bit XL.
SUN: JavaStation-10 (Krups), XVR-4000.
DEC: AlphaStation 255/300MHz.
Cray: Cray1: Memory Module, Cray2: Memory Module (complete stack of eight boards) and a power supply module, Cray3: ECL Module.
Apple: G3 Clamshell, G4 Sawtooth, G4 Quicksilver, G4 Mirror Doors, G5, Mac Pro 2013 (Trash can), 27 inch Cinema Display.
IBM: 486 DX-4 100MHz, 32Mb RAM, Creative Soundblaster 16-Bit, 1.44 Mb Disk drive, Creative 4X CD-ROM, 520Mb HDD.
Alienware: Aurora 7500.
Gaming Rig: Coolermaster Cosmos II, Coolermaster Ultimate 1100W Power supply, Asus Rampage III extreme, I7 980X, Corsair H100, 24Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3, EVGA GTX Titan X Super Clocked Edition, OCZ revodrive 3 x2 240gb, Velociraptor 600GB, Corsair 128GB SSD, Creative X-fi Fatality Pro.

GL1zdA
Donor
From Warsaw, PL
Who joined Dec. 31, 2009, 3:18 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 7:28 a.m...

Came here only to see someone already found it http://www.ebay.pl/itm/263078427500

If someone gets it to work he will have a great system.

HurricaneJames
From Santa Clara, CA
Who joined July 6, 2017, 10:08 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 8:04 a.m...

I have family in Tampa, visit there a couple times a year. I want to start an SGI collection, but a broken Onyx 10k IR seems like a really big first bite. I know that you cannot speak to this specific machine, but does anybody here know how hard it is to repair Onyx systems in general?

Irinikus
From Cape Town, South Africa
Who joined April 27, 2016, 4:25 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 8:20 a.m...

HurricaneJames,

I have no experience with the Onyx 1, so I can only speak for the Onyx 2.

They can be rather difficult to get going, but see it as a project or a work in process!

If you have the money for it and you're in the area, I would say GO FOR IT! Once you have the machine then you can go through the process of fault finding and getting it to work.

Speaking of myself, Iv'e always found it harder to get my hands on a machine than getting it to work. This machine's in good cosmetic condition and its very heavy, so if you are in the area, nows your chance to get your hands on it.

Plastics that are in good cosmetic condition are generally hard to come by, so in my opinion, this machine's a very good deal.

If you scan eBay you will see that there are parts available for these machines

If I lived in the US, I would have already bought it!

Quad R14K 500MHz, IR3 :Tezro:

Quad R16K 700MHz, 8MB, V12, DCD, DM3 :Octane2:

Dual R14K 600MHz, V12 :O2:

R12K 400MHz :Indigo:

R4400SC 150MHz, ELAN
:320:

Dual 1GHz PIII :Indigo2:

R4400SC 200MHz, Extreme :Indy:

R4400SC 200MHz, XZ :Indy:

R5000SC 150MHz, 24Bit XL.
SUN: JavaStation-10 (Krups), XVR-4000.
DEC: AlphaStation 255/300MHz.
Cray: Cray1: Memory Module, Cray2: Memory Module (complete stack of eight boards) and a power supply module, Cray3: ECL Module.
Apple: G3 Clamshell, G4 Sawtooth, G4 Quicksilver, G4 Mirror Doors, G5, Mac Pro 2013 (Trash can), 27 inch Cinema Display.
IBM: 486 DX-4 100MHz, 32Mb RAM, Creative Soundblaster 16-Bit, 1.44 Mb Disk drive, Creative 4X CD-ROM, 520Mb HDD.
Alienware: Aurora 7500.
Gaming Rig: Coolermaster Cosmos II, Coolermaster Ultimate 1100W Power supply, Asus Rampage III extreme, I7 980X, Corsair H100, 24Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3, EVGA GTX Titan X Super Clocked Edition, OCZ revodrive 3 x2 240gb, Velociraptor 600GB, Corsair 128GB SSD, Creative X-fi Fatality Pro.

guardian452
Donor
From United States
Who joined Aug. 21, 2007, 10:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 9:51 a.m...

I thought this was the one I used to have but different SN. Same spec with the addition of ASO. Same missing body panels

Nice machine.

Looks like it has 2 RMs so you need to run it on 240v (208 at least...)

For repairs, it could very well just be something not plugged in or no OS installed. But they are (supposedly) finicky..

Irinikus
From Cape Town, South Africa
Who joined April 27, 2016, 4:25 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 11:02 a.m...

And it's gone!

Some lucky person just scored himself a very clean machine!

Its true that it might be missing a panel, but the panels that are there are good!

Im pretty sure that most of the components in that machine are in good order, judging by its cosmetic condition!

Quad R14K 500MHz, IR3 :Tezro:

Quad R16K 700MHz, 8MB, V12, DCD, DM3 :Octane2:

Dual R14K 600MHz, V12 :O2:

R12K 400MHz :Indigo:

R4400SC 150MHz, ELAN
:320:

Dual 1GHz PIII :Indigo2:

R4400SC 200MHz, Extreme :Indy:

R4400SC 200MHz, XZ :Indy:

R5000SC 150MHz, 24Bit XL.
SUN: JavaStation-10 (Krups), XVR-4000.
DEC: AlphaStation 255/300MHz.
Cray: Cray1: Memory Module, Cray2: Memory Module (complete stack of eight boards) and a power supply module, Cray3: ECL Module.
Apple: G3 Clamshell, G4 Sawtooth, G4 Quicksilver, G4 Mirror Doors, G5, Mac Pro 2013 (Trash can), 27 inch Cinema Display.
IBM: 486 DX-4 100MHz, 32Mb RAM, Creative Soundblaster 16-Bit, 1.44 Mb Disk drive, Creative 4X CD-ROM, 520Mb HDD.
Alienware: Aurora 7500.
Gaming Rig: Coolermaster Cosmos II, Coolermaster Ultimate 1100W Power supply, Asus Rampage III extreme, I7 980X, Corsair H100, 24Gb Corsair Dominator DDR3, EVGA GTX Titan X Super Clocked Edition, OCZ revodrive 3 x2 240gb, Velociraptor 600GB, Corsair 128GB SSD, Creative X-fi Fatality Pro.

MrBill
From Vero Beach, Florida
Who joined Dec. 28, 2012, 12:50 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, noon..

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i bought a thing with money.

it is sold. i drive to get it saturday.

jan-jaap
Donor
From Wijchen, The Netherlands
Who joined June 17, 2004, 11:35 a.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 12:03 p.m...

MrBill wrote: it is sold. i drive to get it saturday.

Congrats. Hope you have fun with it!

guardian452 wrote: Looks like it has 2 RMs so you need to run it on 240v (208 at least...)

There are only two cards under the big FP clam thing, and the right is the DG. So only on RM. But the ASO and ethernet options are worth something.

guardian452 wrote: But they are (supposedly) finicky..

Tell me about it. :roll:

They can be a reel pain to diagnose.

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guardian452
Donor
From United States
Who joined Aug. 21, 2007, 10:12 p.m.

Wrote the following at July 9, 2017, 12:07 p.m...

jan-jaap wrote:

MrBill wrote: it is sold. i drive to get it saturday.

Congrats. Hope you have fun with it!

guardian452 wrote: Looks like it has 2 RMs so you need to run it on 240v (208 at least...)

There are only two cards under the big FP clam thing, and the right is the DG. So only on RM. But the ASO and ethernet options are worth something.

The 1st RM has to be in the slot next to the GE (IIRC)... It's hiding behind a ribbon cable, but you can see the top clip:

Indeed, the ASO is really hard to find. I really wanted one and could never find it. Ethernet is kinda nice too.

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Onyx R10k IR deskside on the 'Bay