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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

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

ooh on the 1600SW.

and I even have the hardware to plug it into (an SGI Visual WorkStation 320, speaking of which, I should submit some kernel patches since a commit recently broken it's kernel compile).

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

The right accessory is the "multilink adapter" so that you can attach the 1600SW to an RGB HD-15 or DVI-D source; there's one on my desk right now, attached to an old dual 533 MHz G4 PowerMac...

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

actually I was referring to the fact that I had an SGI Visual Workstation 320, with native DFP connector for the display, since the 1600SW was originally designed to go with the VisWs320 and O2 machines.

[sierra-nevada.livejournal.com]

I would argue that the display's usefulness will long outlive the computer's, though.

[robbat2.livejournal.com]

sure, this VisWS320 is already a franken-box, combining the working bits from two of them.

[tomatoe333.livejournal.com]

I am jealous. The DVI adapters are more expensive than the damn monitors.
My 1600SW is running on a #9 card in my old dual P-II Linux server, since I can't color-calibrate it on the windoze box where I do my photo work. Damn shame too. It's still a nice monitor.