[rescue] Origin 200 Rescue

[nick at snowman.net]

Erm, I picked up a origin 200 w/ 256meg 180mhz 1meg, 2x18gig for 2k and
considered it a steal.  It's all in preception.
	Nick

On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, Michael Dombrowski wrote:

> On 18 Mar 2002 at 12:01, rescue-request at sunhelp.org wrote:
> 
> > I have an chance to pick up a Origin 200 very cheaply from a MS 
> > networking shop that is gonna do bad things to it unless I buy it.
> > Being MS idiots they have no idea what the system specs are but I can
> > inspect it later today. How does one get to a hinv on these machines?
> > Is it just 9600/8/N/1 with a null-modem cable? Is there a break to get
> > into the PROM if the thing is booting? Will Irix's bootup screen tell
> > me system specs?
> 
> Thanks to all those who replied to my questions about how to get 
> specs of the machine. I went and inspected it today but did not 
> purchase it. The machine was a 180mhz/2mb cache with 256mb ram. It 
> also had a tape drive, cdrom, 6x 9gb disks and included lots of the 
> original manuals and whatnot. The front door was broken off and the 
> feet also, the men said this happened in shipping and it was never 
> powered on. Other than that is was in very good condition. The guys 
> who had it were insurance people, they had no idea what they had. 
> They were telling me how it sold for $17,000 a year ago and was still 
> worth a whole lot. The men wanted $1000 for the system which I 
> thought was pretty high considering that 
> 250mhz/256mb/9gb/Creator/cdrom U2s are selling for $250 and U60s with 
> 300mhz/512mb/2x9gb/Creator/21"/cdrom are selling for $900. I tried 
> bargaining with them but they wouldn't budge a bit. I think it'll 
> probably sit there for many more months. Thus ends my story.
> 
> Mike
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