[geeks] Cooking with SGI-gear?

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Bjorn Ramqvist <brt at g.haggve.se> wrote:
> Judging by this eBay-ad, you realize something as gone wrong along
> the way somewhere...
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2080854086
> 
> Buy a SGI 1600SW flat panel... and a sandwich maker. Um. Yeah, I'll
> do that next time I'll go shopping for a new microwave oven.

Couple quick questions:

Any idea what it would take (MultiLink box?) to run this on an Octane?

Is the B.I.N. price of $550 about market, or high?

Also, the SGI website says this runs at 60 Hz - is that
typical/fine/normal for a flatpanel display?

Thanks in advance,

=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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