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[unixronin]

Somebody I know was just offered a SunFire 6800, free and gratis, on the condition that he take the Sun enterprise rack it's housed in as well (as shown in the photo).

Why?

"The rack doesn't match our new corporate color scheme."

I shit you not.

And, on a related subject, another acquaintance just found an SGI 1600SW LCD monitor (17", 16:9, 1600x1024, 24-bit color, .23mm dot pitch) sitting in a box on a street corner in Mountain View.  The monitor was marked as an engineering sample and not for sale, and the sign taped to the box said "FREE, WORKS".

Only in Silicon Valley....

Comments

[arasirsul.livejournal.com]

Sad thing about the 6800 is if someone offered it to me, unless I thought I had any real chance of ebaying it for more than it cost me to ship it, I'd have to turn 'em down.

I simply can't feed it that many 240V power circuits...

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that class of hardware is the sort that makes your electric meter briefly shriek in mingled ecstasy and despair before the magic smoke escapes from your main service panel. About the biggest you can really run on an unmodified household electrical service is probably my E3000, and at that, it pretty much takes a circuit to itself. I had to install a dedicated 30A line just to run the SU3000RM UPS in my rack, which has nothing bigger in it than an Ultra 30.

The frightening thing is I know people who run, in their homes, such things as SGI Origin 2000s, Vaxen, and Crays. (Dave McGuire had four Crays, at last count.)

[gdmusumeci.livejournal.com]

I could go for a Cray....

[tomatoe333.livejournal.com]

If you know anyone who wants an Enterprise 5000, I know of one that'll be available soon...

It'd heat your house pretty nicely. :-)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

Oooh, don't tempt me .... I don't know where I'd put it :p