[Fwd: Re: [TCLUG:15601] SGI Boxes More please!

[Bradley Wendelboe <krakken@mn.mediaone.net>]

Make that 3 alltogether.  Got geeks in IA. and WY interested.

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Subject: Re: [TCLUG:15601] SGI Boxes (update?)
Date: Wed, 05 Apr 2000 21:45:59 -0500
From: Bradley Wendelboe <krakken@mn.mediaone.net>
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0004052044320.6217-100000@beldaren.yaron.org>

Put me down for a couple.

Bradley Wendelboe

Yaron wrote:
 >
 >   Hi,
 >
 > Ok, thanks to everyone who Emailed me about these boxes. So far we've got
 > people wanting 25 of them, with a few people saying they'd potentially
 > want more, and one person volunteeing a garage for shipping (;
 >
 > I haven't heard anything from the seller yet. I'm assuming that if we
 > can't get 100 boxes, we might get them to hike the price up a teeny bit
 > per box and still ship them. Or I could convince them that TCLUG is a
 > non-profit organisation and hype them into doing it anyway (:
 >
 > For people who weren't sure about the hardware: SGI Indys are not
 > Intel-based, and do NOT take ISA/PCI. The monitor doesn't use a standard
 > VGA connector, and might be single-sync - so you might need an expensive
 > adapter to connect it to a PC. They are 17" Sony Trinitrons though. Indys
 > come with a RJ45 Ethernet. They DO take standard 72pin EDO Ram though.
 >
 > What I am worried about is, although MOST Indys come with 24bit graphics,
 > SOME of them come with 8bit which BITES. I'm going to have to ask the guy
 > that if he ever contacts me back (:
 >
 >
 > -Yaron
 >
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