[rescue] Rescued: Origin 200

[Kevin]

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A house of "ill repute"... oldest
profession..  prostitutes.

/KRM

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 20:22:24 -0800
"Thomas Gallaway" <tgallaway at comcast.net> wrote:

> What is a brotel??? Hotel?
> I know here they use streaming media servers in lots
> of hotels but they run freebsd as their server and
> win98 as the clients that give you the screen you
> will see when you watch a movie or check you hotel
> info...
> 
> On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:16PM -0500, Gavin Hubbard
> wrote:
> > Hi Lads
> >
> > I've just rescued an old SGI Origin 200 system.
> > I've booted it up and run
> > some diagnostics - the rough configuration is as
> > follows.
> >
> > Node A:
> > Single 225MHz R10000
> > 512MB (across 1 bank)
> > 6 x 9GB
> > CDROM
> > Craylink cable
> > XIO interlink cable
> >
> > Node B:
> > Single 180MHz R10000
> > 512MB (across 4 banks)
> > 2 x 4GB
> > CDROM
> > Dual UW (or FWD) SCSI cards
> > PCI NIC (with k/b and mouse ports?)
> > Craylink cable
> >
> > XIO A:
> > Configuration unknown, but no XIO or PCI cards
> > visible.
> >
> > So basically, a dual Craylink system with two
> > processors, 1024MB, 58GB storage, and an XIO box.
> > The condition is very average as two of the nodes
> > have cracked or marked skins and some of the rack
> > ears are bent back. As
> > far as I have been able to gather, they were pulled
> > from a rack at a brothel (!?) and stored in a
> > warehouse for a couple of months - there is
> > pitting on the alloy surfaces inside the chassis.
> > The OS is intact but I'm
> > afraid to boot into it :-P (why would a brothel
> > need a streaming media server.....)
> >
> > Oh - paid 300USD for the entire system.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Gavin
> > _______________________________________________
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