[rescue] SGI, Origin 200, and speed?

[Patrick Finnegan]

On Thursday 29 April 2004 07:46, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> > From: Patrick Finnegan <pat at computer-refuge.org>
> > Date: 2004/04/29 Thu AM 02:57:25 GMT
> > To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> > Subject: Re: [rescue] SGI, Origin 200, and speed?
> >
> > A note for anyone thinking about getting an EMC.  The "three
> > cabinet" wide EMC's are *completely inseperable*.  While there's
> > three doors, there's exactly 4 casters, and one solid steel (by
> > weight it seemed more like depleted uranium) frame for the whole
> > thing.  One frame with three sets of rack rails mounted in it.  The
> > *worst* engineering decision *ever*.  If I had to guess, I bet that
> > it weighed about 3x the weight of my S/390... about 3 tons.
> >
> > Anyways, it turned out to be a 5700 (what EMC terms "mainframe
> > storage", and normally ships with ESCON interfaces), with only SCSI
> > host interfaces installed.  Completely Useless, except for parts. 
> > That sucker ended up getting stripped for parts and dumped off of
> > the back of a truck, which was the most gratifying feeling I've
> > ever gotten from doing that to something I had just bought.  Sigh.
>
> Did it look like this:
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=44994&item=309
>3743363
>
> (Link to Ebay auction for EMC 9700 series storage in a triple-wide
> cabinet...) _______________________________________________
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Yeah, sorta.   It was this one:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3088520498

Pat
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