Hi all,
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....
Adam
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
I had one on my desk at work for a year or so, I tried to find a use for it as it's such a lovely piece of hardware, but in the end there is very little an old SGI can do that a halfway decent Linux desktop can't (unless of course you have access to some of the very nice SGI orientated graphics software, and even then you'd probably want something a bit more meaty than an Indigo 1)
That said they would make rather nice Mame boxen if only sound worked in the Irix port of Mame.
If they have the indycam with them, then that can make a rather nice web cam (but it will only work plugged into the SGI)
They still fetch money on ebay, you should grab them and flog them there.
Regards
Wayne
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 14:05, Adam Bower wrote:
Hi all,
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....
Adam
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