[rescue] SGI IRIS 1200 in Massachusetts for $100 (eBay)

John Floren slawmaster at gmail.com
Tue Jul 31 21:07:14 CDT 2007


On 7/31/07, Mr Ian Primus <ian_primus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> This is really tempting. It's a three hour drive, and
> a lot of money, but I may just go for it. Being a *nix
> terminal, I assume that it groks the Xwindows protocol
> - so it should be able to communicate with other gear,
> correct? Something along the lines of older Suns or
> even a Linux box? My Octane maybe?
>

For extra win, connect it to something like a Libretto running Linux.
It'll be exactly the opposite of the intent, which is to have the big
hot power-hungry machine to the work and have the little cheap machine
display ;)

John
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