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Most Rare Hardware - indigofan - 12-21-2020

Figured I would throw this up here, my most rare piece of SGI "hardware".. SGI Part Number: 9980915 

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - Raion - 12-21-2020

Hmm, my Tezro or my Acclaim Indy.

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - jwhat - 12-22-2020

Hi Indigo Fan,

here is very rare SGI part successfully reverse engineered, by now long gone SGI reseller who used to supply replacement Octane Light Bars with LEDs.



Who says that SGI equipment is too sophisticated and complex to reverse engineer ;-)

I think the part come with an Octane PCI RAD Audio Card.

Cheers from Oz,

John.

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - jan-jaap - 12-22-2020

I've got some of these:



ESD safe mat from SGI European Customer Support and a binder of tools. There's a bunch of screwdrivers but also a chip puller:

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - robespierre - 12-22-2020

That tool pouch is very similar to the old Radio Shack 64-1990 "Deluxe Computer Tool Kit" except for the different style IC pullers/inserters.* Made by the same OEM, I reckon.

I have an SGI-branded Mitsubishi Uni-ball pen somewhere. The ball fell out and it dried up.

* Which is really a good thing: the plastic IC pullers are worthless.

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - jwhat - 12-23-2020

Hi Jan-Jaap,

That red satin cloth looks like something out of a bordello .

I guess it matched the "racy nature" of the SGI machines  ;-)

Cheers from Oz,

John.

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - robespierre - 12-25-2020

The red pad is a 3M 8501 "Portable Field Service Kit": 3-layer vinyl ESD mat, with pockets for cord storage. Red is a common indicator for ESD control (although in its most common form, the transparent polyethylene dissipative bag, it is reduced to pink).

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - jpstewart - 12-30-2020

Well, since we've already stretched the definition of "hardware", why not stretch it a little farther?

I have a couple of SGI Origin notepads.  They're US Letter (8.5x11 inches) size with a background picture of Origin 200 & 2000 machines.  I have two, both still in their original shrink wrap.  (Which partially explains the slightly warped look in the photos -- it's the plastic.  The photos are also poor quality because I was having a hard time avoiding reflections and shadows.  Then I had to rotate the resulting images.  Please forgive my poor camera work!)  I bought them off of ebay many years ago and then couldn't bring myself to open the plastic.

   

And while it's not quite SGI, it is semi-related;  I also have a Cray notepad.  This one is only 4 inches wide by 3 inches high.  But it's a genuine Post-It brand pad of sticky notes.  It was a free gift with some hardware that I bought off of a Nekochan user ages ago.  It came to me with no shrink wrap, so I have used a few of its pages.  (But not too many!)

   

The most rare piece of actual hardware that I have is probably the IMPACT Compression video option for my Indigo2.  I don't recall seeing too many (if any) others over the years.  You can read about it in Ian Mapleson's Indigo2 Buyer's Guide.  It has composite and S-video inputs and outputs, plus a genlock input.  Not much to see in the pictures, but here they are anyway:

           

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RE: Most Rare Hardware - Irinikus - 12-30-2020

@jpstewart Seeing I see some Cray Research represented here:

The Cray 3 module's rare and the complete Cray 2 module is also rather rare! This particular Cray 1 module features rare white Fairchild chips.







Thanks to @jan-jaap, I'm now the proud owner of this rare SGI graphics system: (Although rather new as far as SGI hardware goes, it's rather difficult to acquire)





I suppose the Quad 1GHz Tezro also deserves a mention here, as there are only an handful of people here who have one:







For what it's worth, the SUN Microsystems XVR-4000 is also a pretty rare piece of technology!







And at this point these are also rather hard to come by: (Definitely one of my favourite looking pieces of hardware!)

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