[geeks] TCF

[Andrew Weiss]

On May 3, 2004, at 3:13 PM, Caleb Shay wrote:
> For now, the Crimson is living in my kitchen until I move.  I popped 
> out
> the CPU board just to see what was on it and what kind of shape it was
> in and was shocked at how pristine it is.  The boards in this thing 
> look
> like they were just fabbed yesterday.  There is NO dust inside this
> box.  I don't know anything about Crimsons really, so any pointers to
> docs beyond Ian Mapleson's stuff would be appreciated.  It appears to
> have VGXT graphics, and an R4400 150 processor.  I haven't tried to
> power it up yet since I don't have a 220 outlet in my apartment.  If
> anybody has some RE graphics for sale/trade, please let me know.  (For
> those of you following some of the recent Intel threads on rescue, the
> RE uses Intel i860XP processors :)  According to the specs I can find,
> the polygon handling on this thing far outstrips my Indy and nearly
> matches my Octane, so bzflag should run just fine on it :P
>
I have no docs... but I can coach you along just fine.  I had to beat 
mine into shape at one point.
I may not remember everything, but I can remember a lot.

For Power I just went to the hardware store and got the same grade 
(quality and look n' feel) of 110 V 15A plug and did surgery... are you 
sure your unit is 220?... Mine was 110 20A which has one vertical and 
one horizontal prong + ground.  All of the machines I saw in Dan's lot 
were 110-20A

My install of 6.2 ended up being a custom install with /usr on a 3GB 
disk in the bottom slot and / and everything else on a 2GB disk in the 
top slot.  My machine had a CD-ROM.

VGXT's should come with 3 RM3's I think and the right GE and DG boards.

Is yours maxed at 256MB like mine was?

You will have to pop in an IRIX 5.3 CD to FX your disks... then reboot 
and run the 6.2 Install as normal.

Openssh is tricky to compile with MIPSPro because you have to do one of 
the parts (I don't remember which) as a different type than the 
others.. It has been too long (O32 vs N32)

Make sure the monitor is Sync on Green and I think the 3rd connector 
down should go to the coax ports... or perhaps the second.

My machine also had a FDDI board.

You might want to see if Dan Mayfield (biggie at 3geeks.org) still has any 
extra parts (not likely... but you never know)

Andrew