On Wed, 23 Oct 2002 15:05:40 +0100 Adam Bower wrote:
I have the opportunity to acquire an SGI Indigo (not an Indigo II) today for free with unknown specs (possibly an R4000 cpu) a quick search on google reveals that it will not run either Linux or NetBSD but will run Irix 6.5, can anybody think of any other uses for it? all reasonable suggestions welcome but will need them quick as it will most likely be dumped at some point tonight if I don't take it....
To be quite honest, the only useful thing for Indigo's these days is as a doorstop. But seriously, it is still useful for learning the ins and outs of the IRIX operating system. At work we're in the process of phasing out our Octanes and O2's and replacing all of them with x86 Linux boxes.
It seems that it is a R4000 processor if it can run 6.5 (since I believe the R3000 is limited to IRIX 5.3), therefore the machine can take up to a maximum of 384Mb of RAM.
I came across a good site that may be useful: http://www.irisindigo.com.
Regards,
Martyn