[rescue] $219 Octanes

[Larry Snyder]

Cool.  The one that my friend Rick got for about $that showed up for
a load last night.  512M, SI, 4.3G...wiped.  Appearance was fine.
6.5.15 load (8 disks incl freeware) from a 4x Plex took a little over
2 hours (as opposed to loading up his 100MHz I2 from a Toshiba at
>> 6!!!)  rqsall was funny: a few minutes vs 1.5 hours :)

I don't think you'll be disappointed.

Task at hand now is to convince him to use it for a daily driver --
mail, browsing, etc -- instead of his mega-massive windows boxen.

Let us know how yours comes out!
-ls-


Shawn Wallbridge <swallbridge at franticfilms.com> wrote:
> So I got my Octane today. One of the ones that had the $219 BIN.
> 
> It is pretty scratched up, but hopefully I can clean it up a bit. The 
> absolutely fantastic part is.....it has a hard drive. I could care less 
> about the HD itself, but the sled is the big thing. It was advertised as 
> having no hard drive, which may be why they sold for so little. The HD 
> has a sticker on it saying IRIX 6.4, which is no big deal because I have 
> 6.5 (but I am curious what is on the drive).
> 
> Anyways, I havent' fired it up yet (I just got back with it), but I will 
> post a hinv once I do.
> 
> shawn