[rescue] WTB: SS20 Ram, External SCSI CD

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "Curtis H. Wilbar Jr." <rescue at hawkmountain.net> wrote:
> >--- Nathaniel Grady <nate at grady.is-a-geek.com> wrote:

> The SS20 has two big advantages over the Indigo 2..... size... and
> weight !
> 
> (first time I picked up an Indigo 2 I was wondering if SGI had a
> patent on exceeding the laws of physics with its materials
> density :-) ... onlything worse is a SparcServer 1000)

An Indigo^2 *only* weighs 35 pounds in full dress shipping crate...

> >An Ultra 1-170 should cost similar (or less) equiped similarly...
> 
> The SS20 is still smaller if size is an issue.  Only thing I'd
> recommend anyone thinking of getting a U1 would be is go for
> the E models... they have 100Mbit ethernet and support wide SCSI
> to the disks.

Unless the stated goal is to either re-decorate or bench-press, I still
think an Indigo^2 or Ultra 1 would be a better box to solve the
*computational* needs of the planned user. Opinions of purple vs. beige
aside! ;^)


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976

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