[rescue] Rescued: Origin 200

[Thomas Gallaway]

What is a brotel??? Hotel?
I know here they use streaming media servers in lots of hotels but they 
run freebsd as their server and win98 as the clients that give you the 
screen you will see when you watch a movie or check you hotel info...

On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 11:16PM -0500, Gavin Hubbard wrote:
> Hi Lads
>
> I've just rescued an old SGI Origin 200 system. I've booted it up and 
> run
> some diagnostics - the rough configuration is as follows.
>
> Node A:
> Single 225MHz R10000
> 512MB (across 1 bank)
> 6 x 9GB
> CDROM
> Craylink cable
> XIO interlink cable
>
> Node B:
> Single 180MHz R10000
> 512MB (across 4 banks)
> 2 x 4GB
> CDROM
> Dual UW (or FWD) SCSI cards
> PCI NIC (with k/b and mouse ports?)
> Craylink cable
>
> XIO A:
> Configuration unknown, but no XIO or PCI cards visible.
>
> So basically, a dual Craylink system with two processors, 1024MB, 58GB
> storage, and an XIO box. The condition is very average as two of the 
> nodes
> have cracked or marked skins and some of the rack ears are bent back. 
> As
> far as I have been able to gather, they were pulled from a rack at a
> brothel (!?) and stored in a warehouse for a couple of months - there 
> is
> pitting on the alloy surfaces inside the chassis. The OS is intact but 
> I'm
> afraid to boot into it :-P (why would a brothel need a streaming media
> server.....)
>
> Oh - paid 300USD for the entire system.
>
> Regards,
>
> Gavin
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