[geeks] Trade? Cray for an Origin?

[Michael A. Turner]

	We have failed .coms and Cray computers in Virginia Beach? Were?
Looks like I need to start watching the auction pages in the pilot again or
something.

Michael A. Turner
Systems Engineer
WHRO
michael.turner at whro.org
http://www.whro.org


-----Original Message-----
From: Ethan [mailto:telmnstr at 757.org]
Sent: Thursday, April 04, 2002 11:10 AM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [geeks] Trade? Cray for an Origin?


> And in this condition is nowhere near the worth of an Origin 2000
> system, unless you find someone who just wants it as a conversation piece.

There is quite a few of them coming out of failed .com's that thought they
would make good Real servers. I work with 3800s, 2400s and such... the
last 2000 will be out the door soon AFAIK. 195mhz R10k is a bit dated.

But 16 of them in parallel would make a good replacement for my Pentium
166 OpenBSD host. :-) 

> The OS and such will run tens of thousands of dollars.

$8500 for Unicos, $11500 for Compilers.

Maybe someone has access to surplus Origin 2000s that happens to work with
Crays.

> Bill