[geeks] Found some old pictures, SGI Onyx, Memory Lane

[Aaron Finley]

I found a backup of my old website and was going through some pictures
when I stumbled across an SGI Onyx I used to own, so I've uploaded
them.

When I was still living at home during high school (6-7 years ago), I
put this machine together over the course of two years. My father and
I drove a couple hundred miles to get the chassis, which we somehow
got into the back of our sedan, and I engaged in numerous trades and
deals to get the complete RE2 set. I emptied out a rack-sized Onyx and
traded all the rear-side DC boards for the 4x195mhz board that you
see, which was worth quite a pretty penny at the time.

The sad part? I never got to turn it on. I ran out of actual money to
install a dedicated line. I had just bought the FC-AL board and won 4
loaded Sun A5000 arrays from a gentleman in California on eBay for
pennies on the dollar, but they arrived shipped crosscountry via UPS
with *no* packaging materials, and as such, I lost all my money as I
was betting on reselling three of them at significant profit.

Take a look:

http://www.arnach.net/public/personal/onyx/

-- Aaron Finley

P.S. Mr. Nelson, the AS4100 is still going your way.