Re: free/pick-up: Origin 2000 sgi 2400, Tilburg, The Netherlands

[Tim Cutts <timc@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

On 28 Apr 2009, at 2:26 pm, Joost van Baal wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Tilburg University in the Netherlands wants to get rid of an Origin  
> 2000 sgi
> 2400.  It consists of 3 cabinets of about 2 meters high; width about  
> 22 inch.
> Out of the 4 panels present, 3 are still fully functional.  Is has  
> 48 GB RAM
> and 24 CPU's running at 200 MHz.  It's free for anybody willing to  
> arrange
> transportation.  Please reply to joostvb+sgi@uvt.nl if you're  
> interested (I am
> not subscribed to this list).  If you plan to use the machine for  
> Free Software
> work, you'll get a priority handling :)

Cool, pretty much a Top 500 machine when it was bought, I should think.

*sigh* lapses into nostalgia for his days administering SGI Origin  
machines, back in the late 90's.

Sadly, I have neither the need nor the space for such a machine.

Tim


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