[rescue] The Adventures of Picking up an SGI Origin 2000 and 19 Racks

[PhreakShow Telephone Company]

The 19 racks had some cluster equipment in them.  lots of power equipment.
Got some decent gigabit switches out of it.   All not bad for 250 bucks
total and a 7 hour drive.

The racks im repurposing for around the house. Shelving in the shop,
 Turns out they are great for a kitchen storage.  Gotta think outside the
box for using them lol.  But at the price they were i couldnt refuse.

Im excited to get them together.  I thought of just deracking the SGIs to
make them easier to work with then eventually reassemble once i get them
fully operational.


On Wed, Mar 7, 2018 at 1:18 PM Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:

> In article
> <CAJFG-3U9VJRNc-8jpv6MAu9YaavvGXb7F5CFGga2pSTCjxP=JQ at mail.gmail.com>,
>     PhreakShow Telephone Company <phreakshowtelco at gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I won an auction down at Indiana University for an SGI Origin 2000 System
> > and 19 racks.
>
> From the pics I'm assuming most of the 19 racks were just empty racks?
>
> I'm looking forward to seeing an inventory of your O2K system :)
>
> IIRC, the Origin terminology was for the compute rack configuration
> and the Onyx2 terminology was for the graphics rack configurations.
>
> These rack systems basically consist of a rack that can hold 2 boxes
> top and bottom.  The boxes are essentially the same as what they sold
> in the deskside boxes you can see on nekochan's wiki.
> <http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000>
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