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

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Jul 31, 2007, at 9:55 PM, Mr Ian Primus 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?

It will probably work, however a machine of that vintage would be  
based off of X11R4 or so, while your newer systems are based on  
X11R6.  Anything that is too new will not display or give weirdness.

Specifically, I would expect weirdness with any other X Visual than  
8bit PseudoColor or 24bit TrueColor.

--Patrick