[rescue] SGI Personal Irises- Free

[Dan Canaan]

I'm surprised nobody has responded on this yet.  Perhaps the message didn't 
go through originally.  Anyways, either someone picks up these units from 
the list or they go to a local swap meet with 'free' on them to just get 
them out of the house.

Item:  SGI Personal Iris, aka the big brown box
Qty: 5
Location: Federal Way, WA (Puget Sound area)

These beasties all power up but need and OS.  I believe up to Irix 
5.3.  They are ex-NASA units (cool!) coming from California.  Some have 
drives (most) with sleds which makes moving an OS drive between machines a 
piece of cake.  They need that old early CD-ROM version that Suns and such 
had with the byte mode switch.  I got a couple of those drives but didn't 
have much luck initially to get them recognized, then a New Shiny Object 
arrived on the workbench and these got pushed to the side and not touched 
since.

I'd rather see that a list member gets them as they will recognize them for 
what they are and have a better chance of putting them to use.  A flea 
market will have people looking at them and thinking "Cool! Big old 
computer!" but not have a clue what to do next.

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