[rescue] Re: what the... (joshua d boyd)

[Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001 roosmcd at dds.nl wrote:

> > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1262848691
> > 
> > What in the world is that thing?  They claim that it is an SGI, but it
> > doesn't look like one (don't see any logos either).
> 
>  It is an Indigo2 Impact in some sort of disguise. The ports on the back are 
> the same as in the Indigo2 and in the last picture you can see the power cable 
> used for the impact graphics with special power supply.

Given the part number for the board, it doesn't look like any othe impact
boards that I have. The seller also says that there is no vide out. So the
board might be toasted.....
 
>  This is a very nice machine, if you look at the back, you can see that it has 
> 7 slots. The normal Indigo2 has only 4 expansion slots, which rather limits the 
> number of option cards you can use (MaxImpact graphics takes three slots). 
> 
>  I know there is an industrial 19"rack version of the Indigo which has a larger 
> backplane, so this might be a prototype, just a re-packaged system or maybe a 
> cusyom-built system (I don't want to know what that would have costed).
> 
>  Graphics are probably High-Impact; I would guess that one extra card is some 
> sort of video card and the other a network/serial card.
> 
>  Nice buy, only the case can't compare to a real purple Indigo2.
> 
>   regards,
>    Michiel
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