[rescue] rescue SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for $25M

[saquinn624 at aol.com]

>Message: 11
>Date: Wed, 1 Apr 2009 09:03:56 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Brian Roth <abacos_98 at yahoo.com>
>To: The Rescue List <>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for
>    $25M
>Message-ID: <>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for
>    $25M
>Message-ID: <644832.28726.qm at web53306.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Ahhh! Cray. Been looking a long time for one of those.  Missed out on a  Y-MP
>EL years ago from my own stuborness and have regretted it ever since.
>Yes, the 3800 is sweet. I have a 16 proc O2K as well and I am actually trying
>to aquire a total of 8 racks with a Meta Router. I see O3K's all over the
>place but the O2K's are getting broken into pieces for sale on Ebay.

There's a used computer broker up here with a very nice looking O2k rack (12 processors) that (I've heard) has a O200 installed where the Vault would usually be
Not sure why, I didn't look at it that closely. The skins are in nice shape, though, and it looks new enough to have 300+MHz processors and
appears to come with many FC InfiniteStorage racks for $500.  Don't have the spare capital or floorspace, though :(. 

It's at RE-PC Tukwila, Washington though if anyone wants to come for it.>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>Ahhh! Cray. Been looking a long time for one of those.  Missed out on a  Y-MP
>EL years ago from my own stuborness and have regretted it ever since.
>Yes, the 3800 is sweet. I have a 16 proc O2K as well and I am actually trying
>to aquire a total of 8 racks with a Meta Router. I see O3K's all over the
>place but the O2K's are getting broken into pieces for sale on Ebay.

There's a used computer broker up here with a very nice looking O2k rack (12 processors) that (I've heard) has a O200 installed where the Vault would usually be
Not sure why, I didn't look at it that closely. The skins are in nice shape, though, and it looks new enough to have 300+MHz processors and
appears to come with many FC InfiniteStorage racks for $500.  Don't have the spare capital or floorspace, though :(. 

It's at RE-PC Tukwila, Washington though if anyone wants to come for it.