Finally my SGI Octane 2 arrived. From some months ago I was thinking about buy an Unix workstation or server. Sun Blade and Netra was my first optionbecause I had installed Solaris in my PC box, but from short time ago the SGI old systems prices are falling down and an a O2 or Octane went to the first position in my wish list (and these systems a so cool and beautiful).
The last year a Spanish second hand systems reseller start to sell SGI Octane2 in a very low prices and a lot of this systems were sold. Last moth he started to sell Octane2 again I tis week I bid for one.
My workstation has 400 MHz R12000 CPU, 1 GB of RAM and a 9 GB hard disk. The seller says it has a VPro 10 gfx card but I don't belive (one of this cards alone duplcates the money of all my Octane2). Usualy it would be a VPro6.
You can see it needs a good clean work!!!. Today I connected with a null cable modem with good results (I don't have 13W3 to VGA adapter yet) and the hardware seems OK. Only need software installation.These weekend I'll start to clean... we will see the results.
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