Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :)
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RE: Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :)
(09-12-2018, 10:46 AM)gijoe77 Wrote:  welcome!  What sort of Octanes did you get a hold of?

Hi There

Nothing really special (although to me any SGI is special) but they are

Unit 1 is a dual 195Mhz R10000 with 256Mb ram, 4Gb HDD and IRIX 6.5.13f installed. It has a working copy of Maya 6 and appears to have Houdini 5 & 6 also, but the license keys are no longer current.

Unit 2 is a single 250Mhz R10000 with 512Mb ram, 18Gb HDD and IRIX 6.5.13. This system appears to have Adobe PhotoShop installed as well as Avid Marquee, Illusion and IFX.

Unit 3 is a 225Mhz R10000 with 512Mb ram, 18Gb HDD and IRIX 6.5.13. This system appears to have Piranha HD editing software installed.
The cases have a few light scratches but oak. Nothing was broken or anything.

It also came with a spare 250Mhz R10000 and SE graphics board with texture mem and 2 spare drive trays (one damaged but it still works fine for me).

The globes in light bars need replacing but that shouldn't be too much of an issue (I hope)

They didn't come with keyboards, mice or monitors but since I have been an IT manager for a long time now I have a fair few PS2 devices and old monitors laying around.

The biggest issue I had was getting the 13W3 adaptor.  The first ones I bought were the wrong gender but I found a guy on ebay that builds them and guaranteed his for octanes regardless of sync on green.  That sounded pretty good for me.   

Anyway, time for me to strip them down and rebuild them how I want (basically putting all the best bits in one and then working on down) and then installing a fresh OS install on them.

Next on my list is an external scsi cdrom Smile
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Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :) - by Infiltratr - 09-12-2018, 07:25 AM
RE: Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :) - by gijoe77 - 09-12-2018, 10:46 AM
RE: Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :) - by Infiltratr - 09-19-2018, 12:02 PM
RE: Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :) - by gijoe77 - 09-19-2018, 03:22 PM
RE: Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :) - by Infiltratr - 09-21-2018, 02:29 AM
RE: Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :) - by BrainStorm - 09-13-2018, 05:54 AM
RE: Newbie just starting on this IRIX thing :) - by TruHobbyist - 09-17-2018, 05:56 AM

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