Just FYI, in case somebody can make use of these.

> From: alex@posixnap.net (Alex J. Avriette)
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi.hardware
> Subject: SGI's, Free to a good home (Virginia, USA)
> 
> Recently posted to mailing lists at work, no takers.
> 
> Get em while they're hot folks. Anything left is ebay fodder. After
> that, the landfill. Hate to see em go.
> 
> ----------
> 
> I'm going to be moving in April, and I have (literally) about a ton of
> hardware I'd like to shed before then. I will gladly give the
> following to whomever would like them:
> 
> An SGI Crimson, R4400/150. 256mb of ram. VGXT Graphics.
> An SGI Power Series, with Crimson guts. R4400/150. 128mb of ram. VGXT
> graphics.
> 
> Both of these beasts weigh about 150lbs and are the size of a minibar.
> Both of them require 50-pin scsi disks. I have sleds for them (twelve
> total). You can usually find these disks for $5-10 on ebay. The most
> recent IRIX they will run is 6.2, which isn't terrible, but isn't
> great. I originally bought the first Crimson to learn IRIX, and the
> second because it was really cheap. I am presently using them as
> nightstands.
> 
> Both crimsons have 10mbit ethernet, for which you will need an AUI
> adapter -- I have spares.
> 
> An SGI Octane, R10k/195, 128mb of arm, 4gb of disk, SI graphics.
> 
> This machine I bought about a year ago, and used as a desktop. It is
> in excellent cosmetic shape, and has a nice fresh install of IRIX
> 6.5.18f on it. I have media for it. The octane is smaller than the
> crimsons of course, but still weighs about 80lbs. You can carry it in
> your arms, physically, if you are masochistic.
> 
> You probably want a dolly for the above. I can provide one at my
> place, but on your end, that's your problem. :)
> 
> The following goodies set me back a bit of money, so I'd like to get
> something out of it, but not a whole lot.
> 
> An SGI Challenge L, 6x R4400/250. 1gb of ram on MC3, easy enough to
> get to 2gb. 7x 9gb IBM wide/diff scsi drives. It has a VFE ("verruh
> fast etharnet!") dual-100mbit board. Challenges, of course, do not
> have graphics boards, but you should be able to talk to it fine on
> serial. The challenge has 6.5.18f installed on it also. It was my
> database server until very recently.
> 
> I'm totally open to an offer on it. I paid $600 for it a couple years
> ago, but I wouldn't expect anything like that. Give me $100, and it's
> yours. It is a great machine, and still very fast. I have licenses for
> MIPSPro (SGI's compiler) on the machine.
> 
> I have a 20" SGI Monitor DG20E20. It, like the Sun's, is a Sony
> Trinitron underneath its charming graphite exterior. It is in very
> nice shape, and takes HD15 and 13W3 video connections (and can
> switch). I understand, though, that this is a sync-on-green monitor,
> so it may not work with a PC. It will work fine with the Octane
> though. I'd happily trade this monitor for beer, pizza, whatever. It
> isn't that special to me, but I paid $125 for it last year. Still
> smarting from that.
> 
> The crimsons use 3BNC video, I have video cables for that. I also have
> various other SGI cabling, ask if you think I might have something,
> given this inventory. I do NOT have a 3BNC monitor, but I do have a 
> 3BNC -> 13W3 adapter (hens teeth, anyone?).
> 
> ...
> 
> As soon as I'm able to migrate my dns/smtp/http/cvs/shell services off
> of them, I also have a bunch of sparc/solaris machines that I'll be
> getting rid of. Let me know if you're interested in:
> 
> Sparc 20, 4x 125mhz Ross, 256mb ram, 2x 4gb
> Sparc 4, 110mhz, 1x 10k 9gb
> A whole slew of Sparc LX/IPX/IPC machines
> Sun 711 StorEdge multipack with 12x 9gb 10krpm cheetahs (fast/wide
> scsi)
> 
> Additionally, I have a whole flock of "lunchbox" sparcs -- IPC, IPX,
> LC, LX, including an LX with 96mb of ram. The LX is sun4m and will run
> Solaris 9. While not quite fast, it is running OpenBSD presently, and
> makes a terrific firewall (it has 2 ethernet cards), and would work
> reasonably well as a diskless sun machine.
> 
> Solaris is free from Sun. The 4 and 20, being sun4m, will run Solaris
> 9, which is a very nice version of Solaris. All of these machines are
> currently in great working order.
> 
> Anyways, most of this stuff will just wind up on ebay provided I can't
> find good homes for them otherwise. Feel free to forward on to anyone
> you might think is interested.
> 
> These machines are located in Arlington, VA. That makes them local to
> MD, DC, WV, VA, and NC. My car is a Buick. I cannot move any of these
> in my car, you'll have to come to me. You'll need to email me if you
> are really interested in any of this, I will take email as higher
> priority than usenet. I will poll the group every couple days.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> alex
> <alex@posixnap.net>