Toys...

I have, sitting on the floor of my office, a piece of hardware. It's not new, but it's now mine.

SGI Indigo2 eXtreme R10000, Aqua.

SGI rebranded Sony Trinitron 21" monitor, light grey granite.

SGI keyboard, light grey granite.

SGI mouse, light grey granite.

Internally, it's a MIPS R10000/200Mhz w/256MB RAM and Extreme graphics. This will replace the Indy at home (MIPS R4600/133Mhz w/128MB RAM and XZ Graphics). I'm not sure, but since this machine is an R10000, I may be able to run current versions of Irix on it (The MIPS3 (32 bit) will not run any version past 6.5.22), but I won't know until I try. The processor is supported without question, but newer versions may still refuse to install on it since support for the Indigo2 was officially ended with 6.5.22 along with the Crimson, Onyx, Indy, Indigo, Challenge, and Power series machines, but it's still IRIX64, so it may install and just be unsupported (which I don't care about, since I'm not paying SGI for support on a personal machine that's a decade old at this point).

Toys...

I have, sitting on the floor of my office, a piece of hardware. It's not new, but it's now mine.

SGI Indigo2 eXtreme R10000, Aqua.

SGI rebranded Sony Trinitron 21" monitor, light grey granite.

SGI keyboard, light grey granite.

SGI mouse, light grey granite.

Internally, it's a MIPS R10000/200Mhz w/256MB RAM and Extreme graphics. This will replace the Indy at home (MIPS R4600/133Mhz w/128MB RAM and XZ Graphics). I'm not sure, but since this machine is an R10000, I may be able to run current versions of Irix on it (The MIPS3 (32 bit) will not run any version past 6.5.22), but I won't know until I try. The processor is supported without question, but newer versions may still refuse to install on it since support for the Indigo2 was officially ended with 6.5.22 along with the Crimson, Onyx, Indy, Indigo, Challenge, and Power series machines, but it's still IRIX64, so it may install and just be unsupported (which I don't care about, since I'm not paying SGI for support on a personal machine that's a decade old at this point).

Toys...

I have, sitting on the floor of my office, a piece of hardware. It's not new, but it's now mine.

SGI Indigo2 eXtreme R10000, Aqua.

SGI rebranded Sony Trinitron 21" monitor, light grey granite.

SGI keyboard, light grey granite.

SGI mouse, light grey granite.

Internally, it's a MIPS R10000/200Mhz w/256MB RAM and Extreme graphics. This will replace the Indy at home (MIPS R4600/133Mhz w/128MB RAM and XZ Graphics). I'm not sure, but since this machine is an R10000, I may be able to run current versions of Irix on it (The MIPS3 (32 bit) will not run any version past 6.5.22), but I won't know until I try. The processor is supported without question, but newer versions may still refuse to install on it since support for the Indigo2 was officially ended with 6.5.22 along with the Crimson, Onyx, Indy, Indigo, Challenge, and Power series machines, but it's still IRIX64, so it may install and just be unsupported (which I don't care about, since I'm not paying SGI for support on a personal machine that's a decade old at this point).

Correction :

So, my memory how this machine is configured is slightly off:

>> hinv
System: IP28
Processor: 195 Mhz R10000, with FPU
Primary I-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Primary D-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes
Memory size: 128 Mbytes
Graphics: GR3-XZ
SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(1)
Audio: Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0

It's got half the RAM I thought it had in it. That's okay though, there's an Indigo2 Impact R4400/250 that DOES have 256MB in it that is slated to be trashed. I'll swipe the RAM, HD, DAT and CDROM drives out of it as well once it's taken out of capital inventory and headed for the bin.

EDIT :

These machines were the cost of a house when they were new (this one was one the order of one hundred fifty thousand new, the Indigo2 Impact was around seventy five thousand originally). Now people give 'em away on eBay for the cost of shipping. The Onyx 10000 Inifinite Reality (2xR10000/200 256MB, Challenge M Deskside chassis) sitting on my office floor was over half a million when it was current. Now I can't give it away. The Indy sitting on my desk at home that I mentioned below? It was a fifty thousand dollar machine new (maybe more, the XZ graphics were special in that machine, normally an Indy was only upgraded to an Indy 24bit graphics adapter, not an OpenGL accelerated adapter).

Correction :

So, my memory how this machine is configured is slightly off:

>> hinv
System: IP28
Processor: 195 Mhz R10000, with FPU
Primary I-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Primary D-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes
Memory size: 128 Mbytes
Graphics: GR3-XZ
SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(1)
Audio: Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0

It's got half the RAM I thought it had in it. That's okay though, there's an Indigo2 Impact R4400/250 that DOES have 256MB in it that is slated to be trashed. I'll swipe the RAM, HD, DAT and CDROM drives out of it as well once it's taken out of capital inventory and headed for the bin.

EDIT :

These machines were the cost of a house when they were new (this one was one the order of one hundred fifty thousand new, the Indigo2 Impact was around seventy five thousand originally). Now people give 'em away on eBay for the cost of shipping. The Onyx 10000 Inifinite Reality (2xR10000/200 256MB, Challenge M Deskside chassis) sitting on my office floor was over half a million when it was current. Now I can't give it away. The Indy sitting on my desk at home that I mentioned below? It was a fifty thousand dollar machine new (maybe more, the XZ graphics were special in that machine, normally an Indy was only upgraded to an Indy 24bit graphics adapter, not an OpenGL accelerated adapter).

Correction :

So, my memory how this machine is configured is slightly off:

>> hinv
System: IP28
Processor: 195 Mhz R10000, with FPU
Primary I-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Primary D-cache size: 32 Kbytes
Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes
Memory size: 128 Mbytes
Graphics: GR3-XZ
SCSI Disk: scsi(0)disk(1)
Audio: Iris Audio Processor: version A2 revision 1.1.0

It's got half the RAM I thought it had in it. That's okay though, there's an Indigo2 Impact R4400/250 that DOES have 256MB in it that is slated to be trashed. I'll swipe the RAM, HD, DAT and CDROM drives out of it as well once it's taken out of capital inventory and headed for the bin.

EDIT :

These machines were the cost of a house when they were new (this one was one the order of one hundred fifty thousand new, the Indigo2 Impact was around seventy five thousand originally). Now people give 'em away on eBay for the cost of shipping. The Onyx 10000 Inifinite Reality (2xR10000/200 256MB, Challenge M Deskside chassis) sitting on my office floor was over half a million when it was current. Now I can't give it away. The Indy sitting on my desk at home that I mentioned below? It was a fifty thousand dollar machine new (maybe more, the XZ graphics were special in that machine, normally an Indy was only upgraded to an Indy 24bit graphics adapter, not an OpenGL accelerated adapter).