The collected works of Sudos

I traded off a 1x750MHz III Blade1000 with 2GB? plus a single hard drive, SunPCI with a K6-2/350AFR on it and some other stuff, got 50 bucks and my X2200 M2... and an SS2 with a Weitek Power-uP! CPU and 64MB of RAM. I couldn't justify the estimated power draw of the 1000 after moneysinking estimated upgrades into it compared to the SS2 which will be an ongoing project soon, and the X2200M2 which I already sunk in $60 for the 64GB of RAM and will soon sink in another 20 bucks for CPUs and a BIOS chip for a dual Socket F board on the side here for the two older CPUs from it, so to continue using them. Sparc is really cool, it's just that once you get to a certain point with it, there's so many things that x86/64 chips do a helluva lot better without being as picky about things... and use less power doing it. that said, seems the Blade 1500s uses less power although being more powerful.

That aside, the Blade 1000 went to a kid in south Jersey that lives by the museum they run VCF East at. threw in an IPC that I couldn't use and a 733MHz PMac G4 since he was really getting into alternate architechtures and enjoyed volunteering over there when he had time. the Blade 1000 and the G4 were originally from NJIT, if you can believe it-- a friend of mine of whom has now gone overseas this past weekend gave them to me with my Ultra 10 and SGI Octane/Indy/1600SW+#9RevIV-FP card.... and a couple bins full of older cables, drives and goodies galore.

(the U10/Octane/Indy were also from NJIT too)

if it wasn't for having to watch power consumption, I'd already have my Sun-4/260 or 370 up and running if I could get them to boot. 25MHz SPARC, what a power house!

since you guys are talking Quad G5s in here, I may as well post this my buddy did a few months back. it has a bad core now and there's a replacement sitting back home in CO, but he's away in NC and has been for a few months so he hasn't had a single chance to make the proper video for this...

originally this G5 was sitting in CT, it came to me, and I shipped it over to him. and then this happened to it. I don't know what he used for coolant, but he replaced all the o-rings and will be making kits to sell for a few bucks each for others to do the same with theirs (since he got a pack of 500 of the proper ones for peanuts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EF7xIHKx6As

he has a lot of SGI hardware too including a Fuel and an O2 (fastest they made I think?) and some other stuff.
the video update is going to show the process of fixing the leaking issue and what to use for o-ring replacements as well as cleaning out all the old fluid for new stuff. so, your PPC blastfurnaces can run reliably this winter and not pee all over the place!