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[Jochen Kunz]

On Sun, 28 Nov 2004 12:26:48 GMT
Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:

[Indigo PSUs]
> The PSUs are easy to repair.
One of us tried to repair them. He has experience in these things but
was not able to get them back to live.

> I never liked the look of the Indigo^2 so I don't have any of those. 
I don't care much about the look. The R10k Impact is a bit limited in
memory / bus bandwith and IO, but still a nice machine.

> I'd like your Octane, though, if you ever get tired of it ;-)
Well. I bought it (without PCI options and single head) about a year ago
for 300,-EUR. R12k-300 (E)SI Octanes are still the "sweet spot".

> :-)  The O2K I helped look after in Computer Science was a 32
> processor unit and it had a graphics unit.  Nothing like Onyx
> graphics, but I would have liked that.
To be onest: I don't have an application for that many CPUs. I need one
or two faster CPUs, not several slower CPUs. Nevertheles an Onyx2 would
be a nice machine for "personal workstation". ;-)
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tschüß,
       Jochen

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