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Got a Phobos G160 10/100 Ethernet for an SGI Indigo2

Brian — Mon, 30 May 2011 19:39:39 +0000

I went down to the local RE-PC store to see what kind of computer junk they had that I really didn’t need but really wanted and ran across this Indigo2 Impact 10000. I need another Indigo2 like I need a hole in my head but this one had a very rare and desirable Phobos G160 10/100 Ethernet for Indigo2 card in it. They wanted $25 for the whole unit and I didn’t even want to pay that. I asked if they’d take $10 for the card and they gave me the whole machine for that.

I got it home and tore it apart to see what I had and shockingly, I don’t think this things ever been turned on. The top skins were beat up, but the bottom skin was in good shape. There was no dust, everything looked new save a little corrosion and look, I don’t think that CPU fan has ever actually been spun up.

REPC SGI Indigo 2 IMPACT 10000

SGI Indigo 2 IMPACT 10000 Totally Clean. No dust at all.

SGI Indigo 2 IMPACT 10000 with unused CPU fan.

Who buys a $25,000 computer and doesn’t turn it on?

Anyhow, here’s the card:

Phobos G160 10/100 Ethernet for an SGI Indigo2

Phobos G160 10/100 Ethernet for an SGI Indigo2 2

Got some great legacy Sun Ultra Enterprise 2 and Sparcstation 20 Hardware for Free

Brian — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:47:57 +0000

The Ultra Enterprise is a Dual 300 and 768MB Ram.

The Sparcstation 20′s got dual 390Z50 and 128MB Ram.

Just Picked up a NeXTstation mono and N4000A monitor

Brian — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 23:01:43 +0000

It came with a working install of NextStep 3.3 and I was able to guess the root password. The best part is that it included some fun software and a hidden directory with some 1990s adult pictures. They’re pretty nice if you squint and stand a couple meters away from the monitor

Of course, the real reason I wanted this system was for the N4000A monitor. I can now get my cube working.

Broadstripe Service Interuption Log: 2/9/2008 10:00am

Brian — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:37:53 +0000

Called Mark at support and he claims every thing’s hunky dory. There were no outages in my area. Made some ‘changes’ to my account and would not tell me what they were.

Got A Sun SparcServer20 for free on Craigslist…

Brian — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:25:39 +0000

Gotta like free. This was a good one which, of course, makes up for all the less than optimal trades found on Craigslist.

I haven’t booted it up yet but it’s got three 2GB drives, one 18GB, a bunch of RAM, two tape drives, dual 75MHz processors, graphics card, a wide SCSI/NIC card and some other card I can’t identify, probably another SCSI card. That 18GB drive will likely find its way into my SGI O2.

The system:

Logo:

Back:

Guts:

Antique Computer Dream Shed With SGI, NeXT, and Commodore Computers

Brian — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 04:46:06 +0000

Every shed needs SGIs, a MythTV server, NeXT Cubes, Playboys, Commodore, and Apple computers,

Here’s some annotated images of a dream storage shed:

Sorting Antique and Vintage Apple, Commodore, and Amiga computers

Brian — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 06:12:13 +0000

I’m a collector of fine antique computers and game systems that I spent most of my childhood playing with. This include Vic-20′s, Commodore 64′s, Apple II’s, and Amiga’s. The collection has expanded to other machines that I really would have liked to own like Sun’s, SGI’s, and NeXT computers. Over time the collection’s gotten a bit out of control (though not as bad as some of my peer’s problems) and needed to clear some things out.

Here’s about 75% of the stuff out of the shed and in the garage:

After the project was completed I basically gave away this stack:

Here’s the Commodore Tower of Power:

Here’s the Apple Tower of Power (Note the SGI Octane and Indy R5000 in the background):

…more later.

Who Really Needs an Old Sun Enterprise E450?

Brian — Sat, 22 Sep 2007 06:39:34 +0000

I love old computers and when I saw this E450 at Boeing Surplus for $25 I had to have it.

…of course, I only have a 1700 sq ft house with five people in it and this thing is > 200lbs and as big as an end table. Beyond that, what can you do with it? Store your DVD collection in an Oracle database? Run a really mean PERL script?

No graphics, no games, it’s out of here. Sold it on craigslist for $25 bucks, but I broke that small door off on the way so I gave it to him for $5.

$75,000 retail to $5 on craigslist in seven years. That’s what I call depreciation.