Just found an SGI Challenge in the garbage. It's a deskside monster, too big for my collection, but it's a shame to let it just disappear. Let me know if you're interested in picking it up. FOB New York, Manhattan, Columbia University
Yes yes - andy diller
On Sep 11, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Stephen A Edwards via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Just found an SGI Challenge in the garbage. It's a deskside monster, too big for my collection, but it's a shame to let it just disappear. Let me know if you're interested in picking it up. FOB New York, Manhattan, Columbia University
I will grab it and take you to Murray hill. - andy diller
On Sep 11, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Stephen A Edwards via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Just found an SGI Challenge in the garbage. It's a deskside monster, too big for my collection, but it's a shame to let it just disappear. Let me know if you're interested in picking it up. FOB New York, Manhattan, Columbia University
I will grab it and take you to Murray hill. - andy diller
Woo hoo! When I was younger I had two Challenge XLs, four Challenge Ls, two Onyx's, and a Challenge S at home. And a big power bill! Museum needs a Challenge XL and/or full rack Onyx. They were sexy with the CPU load graph LCD on the front. As is Origin 2000. Origin 3800 belt buckle kinda sucked compared to Origin 2000. - Ethan
To close the loop on this, I picked the SGI up from Stephen today and have it back at home where it's getting cleaned and about to attempt to boot it. Thank you very much Steve for saving this system- it's a very interesting SGI in that it has a unique MIPS chip that was abandoned after this, the MIPS R8000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000 I'll put picts up on imgur and and this post back the link to this list when and if I get it booted and powered up. Fun fact: I have to lockpick the lock on the front so that it will get power. Youtube assures me this can be done with two paperclips. We'll see. -andy
On Sep 11, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Stephen A Edwards via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Just found an SGI Challenge in the garbage. It's a deskside monster, too big for my collection, but it's a shame to let it just disappear. Let me know if you're interested in picking it up. FOB New York, Manhattan, Columbia University
great rescue story. looking forward to hearing the outcome... On Sat, Sep 14, 2019 at 9:50 PM andy diller via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
To close the loop on this, I picked the SGI up from Stephen today and have it back at home where it's getting cleaned and about to attempt to boot it.
Thank you very much Steve for saving this system- it's a very interesting SGI in that it has a unique MIPS chip that was abandoned after this, the MIPS R8000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R8000
I'll put picts up on imgur and and this post back the link to this list when and if I get it booted and powered up.
Fun fact: I have to lockpick the lock on the front so that it will get power. Youtube assures me this can be done with two paperclips. We'll see.
-andy
On Sep 11, 2019, at 7:42 PM, Stephen A Edwards via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Just found an SGI Challenge in the garbage. It's a deskside monster, too big for my collection, but it's a shame to let it just disappear. Let me know if you're interested in picking it up. FOB New York, Manhattan, Columbia University
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