Hardware Wanted

SGI 750 Itanium workstation...

Hakimoto
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From Nijmegen, Netherlands, Europe
Who joined March 30, 2003, 4:29 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 22, 2003, 8:30 a.m...

Hi All!

Can anyone point me towards someone or a company which might be able to get one of these second hand?

Thanks

The Bandito wrote: In a few years, no doubt, you'll be able to buy a computer,
software and operating system that will match the capabilities
of your current Amiga at about the price you paid for the
Amiga way back when. But you can smile to yourself, knowing
that you were touching the future years before the rest of
the world. And that other computers and operating systems
will do with brute force what the Amiga did years before with
grace, elegance and style.

Eroteme.ch - my end of the internet...

Hakimoto
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From Nijmegen, Netherlands, Europe
Who joined March 30, 2003, 4:29 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 24, 2003, 6:03 a.m...

Ha!

Having searched around like a maniac and contacted several people who have the identical HP i2000, having even found one that sells them for about 2500$ apiece, the following is clear:

1. The SGI 750, Dell Precision 730, NSI Cession (?) 710 and the HP i2000 are the same Intel OEM machine
2. They all use first generation FP bug IA64 Itanium CPUs, although the HP i2000 has been updated to newer processors that don´t have this bug
3. They all run multiple OSs
4. Apparently Linux runs extremely unstable
5. HP/UX runs stable but with zero 3d X.
6. WinXP 64bit runs stable but is shit to start with
7. Everyone that has one of these machines says they´re unreliable

And what does that teach Hakimoto? Don´t go running after a machine, just because it looks extremely sexy and has cool specs...

Still.. I would love to have one!

Thanks for listening

The Bandito wrote: In a few years, no doubt, you'll be able to buy a computer,
software and operating system that will match the capabilities
of your current Amiga at about the price you paid for the
Amiga way back when. But you can smile to yourself, knowing
that you were touching the future years before the rest of
the world. And that other computers and operating systems
will do with brute force what the Amiga did years before with
grace, elegance and style.

Eroteme.ch - my end of the internet...

squeen
Moderator
From Maryland, USA
Who joined May 9, 2003, 6:10 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 24, 2003, 6:22 a.m...

A perfect wrap up :lol:

roosmcd
From Netherlands
Who joined Aug. 15, 2003, 1:04 p.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 25, 2003, 8:19 a.m...

Take a look at the following article:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/61/32619.html

I remembered it for the following quote:

"Just ask SGI. They sold 29 Itanium servers in the first quarter and then 26 systems in the second quarter. Compare this to Unisys which sold 7 Itanium servers in the first quarter and then managed to sell 6 servers in the second quarter. Wait. Those numbers are trending down."

squeen
Moderator
From Maryland, USA
Who joined May 9, 2003, 6:10 a.m.

Wrote the following at Oct. 27, 2003, 4:01 a.m...

As much I would like to see something save SGi from financial ruin, it still warms my cold, sadistic heart to see Itanium sales in the crapper. :twisted: