I want one of these

[370forlife]

http://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi.onyx/onyx.shtml

Awesome, I want one of those.

I found a iris indigo on fleabay I was interested in. Too bad it uses so much proprietary stuff.

[stretch0069]

Re: I want one of these

i think i started to drool a bit


we have an O2 sitting at work collecting dust. It might even have been thrown away already. If I could get into it I'd take it home to play with. Someone put passwords in and no one knows what they are.

[370forlife]

Re: I want one of these

I love SGI's. I like their ones that use weird hardware. I don't like the Intel ones they had.

[NxB]

Re: I want one of these

Cool but slow. Nothing really great about irix.

[sofTest]

Re: I want one of these

i think i started to drool a bit


we have an O2 sitting at work collecting dust. It might even have been thrown away already. If I could get into it I'd take it home to play with. Someone put passwords in and no one knows what they are.

If you got access to the hardware, there is always a way in. I think this page might help you.

[Topcat]

Re: I want one of these

Whoever bought this new got bent over hard I imagine!!

WOWZA!!

[NxB]

Re: I want one of these

How much memory is that?

[Per Hansson]

Re: I want one of these

512mb it says on the page

[NxB]

Re: I want one of these

16mb modules. Ouch

[pentium]

Re: I want one of these

I sensed a disturbance int he force and was summoned to this thread.
Just so everyone knows, I own an Onyx and it's earlier brother, the Crimson.


They are big, they eat power and they give off more heat than a nuclear reactor but damn are they nice. Mine only has two R10K processors and 512MB ram but I want to update it to quad R10Ks and two gigs of ram. I also got a professional video I/O package for it (the black box marked Sirius Video is the breakout box for it).
I have a few SGI systems. Yeah they are novelty hobby systems now that SGI kicked the bucket but they sure are a lot more colorful than regular PCs and I think Irix is awesome.

EDIT: hey stretch, if you can get hold of an O2 that would be awesome. I'm pretty sure you can find the install media someplace on the interwebz (if you know what I mean ) and ther is still a large software base for the systems (It's called NekoWare).

EDIT EDIT: My only real gripe is that one of my two scsi channels is high voltage differential which I have only ever seen used once.