[rescue] rescue SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for $25M

[Brian Roth]

Yes, I did see that mentioned on Neko.  Wrong coast though :<

Otherwise I would have picked that guy right up.

--- On Wed, 4/1/09, saquinn624 at aol.com <saquinn624 at aol.com> wrote:
From: saquinn624 at aol.com <saquinn624 at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [rescue] rescue SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for
$25M
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 3:24 PM

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>Ahhh! Cray. Been looking a long time for one of those.  Missed out on a
Y-MP
>EL years ago from my own stuborness and have regretted it ever since.
>Yes, the 3800 is sweet. I have a 16 proc O2K as well and I am actually
trying
>to aquire a total of 8 racks with a Meta Router. I see O3K's all over
the
>place but the O2K's are getting broken into pieces for sale on Ebay.

There's a used computer broker up here with a very nice looking O2k rack
(12 processors) that (I've heard) has a O200 installed where the Vault would
usually be
Not sure why, I didn't look at it that closely. The skins are in nice
shape, though, and it looks new enough to have 300+MHz processors and
appears to come with many FC InfiniteStorage racks for $500.  Don't have
the spare capital or floorspace, though :(.

It's at RE-PC Tukwila, Washington though if anyone wants to come for
it.>
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>Ahhh! Cray. Been looking a long time for one of those.  Missed out on a
Y-MP
>EL years ago from my own stuborness and have regretted it ever since.
>Yes, the 3800 is sweet. I have a 16 proc O2K as well and I am actually
trying
>to aquire a total of 8 racks with a Meta Router. I see O3K's all over
the
>place but the O2K's are getting broken into pieces for sale on Ebay.

There's a used computer broker up here with a very nice looking O2k rack
(12 processors) that (I've heard) has a O200 installed where the Vault would
usually be
Not sure why, I didn't look at it that closely. The skins are in nice
shape, though, and it looks new enough to have 300+MHz processors and
appears to come with many FC InfiniteStorage racks for $500.  Don't have
the spare capital or floorspace, though :(.

It's at RE-PC Tukwila, Washington though if anyone wants to come for it.
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