Free to good home: SGI Indy Workstation, with original PS2 Keyboard

[jw500]

I had posted this on Craigslist and got zero action, I assume nobody even knows what it is. I figured I would give it once last chance here before it goes in the trash.

I have an SGI Indy Workstation, no idea if it works. Pictures are of the actual unit., It has no hard drive installed. I also have the original PS2 "Granite" keyboard for it in great condition.

It is free, local pickup or I can ship it. Just hate to throw it away...

EDIT: I uploaded pictures here, but I'm not sure how to make them visible.

 

[TruHobbyist]

Where in the world are you from?

 

[Elf]

Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.

 

[jw500]

Where in the world are you from?

Boise, Idaho, USA

Pictures might not have worked due to them being HEIC format. I'll convert and re-upload. Thank you.

 

[jw500]

Trying it again with them in JPEG format. If there are any particular parts you want pics of, let me know. Thank you.

 

[CiaoTime]

It won't work with 6 RAM sticks, that's for sure! They've gotta be installed in sets of 4 or 8, as a heads-up to any future owner.

It all looks to be there, though. Hopefully it finds a good home. Boise's just a toooouch too far for me to drive to in the winter, heh.

 

[LXLS]

I'd love to have this and would happily pay you to box and ship it! an Indy and an O2 are the only things needed to round my collection out! I'll send you a PM.

 

[jw500]

It won't work with 6 RAM sticks, that's for sure! They've gotta be installed in sets of 4 or 8, as a heads-up to any future owner.

It all looks to be there, though. Hopefully it finds a good home. Boise's just a toooouch too far for me to drive to in the winter, heh.

If I recall, this machine played a short song when the power button was pressed, but nothing after that. I didn't have a VGA Adapter to to see if anything came up on a monitor.

I travel to Seattle and Portland and Central Oregon frequently, if you're in one of those directions I can meet up and give it to you.

 

[mgtremaine]

We had a lot of Nekochan users in Seattle and Portland so certainly someone should be able to rescue it. ( I also suspect someone like Adrian Black, who is Portland, would take it in and pass it on after playing with it). So if no one active is in the area, I'll try to dig up a home for it. (I'm SoCal so that a nope from me.)

-Mike

 

[Elf]

Edit: With apologies, I no longer wish to have involvement with SGUG or SGI communities in general,
and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

This message will replace all of my previous forum posts because deleting threads that I started would have removed
other peoples' posts.

 

[Jinroh]

I too expressed interest in giving this indy a new lease on life.

 

[praetor]

I would love this. My indy just died and it make me sad I can pay for shipping.

 

[fraserN64]

Thought I’d update: with a 13W3 cable and SoG monitor, I was happy to see this error displayed.

I didn’t have any single sticks of RAM that would match, so I replaced all 6 sticks with a matched set of 4 and got a ‘hinv’

I’ll be installing IRIX soon.
Just wanted to share that a nice error message was displayed and that this Indy didn’t go to a recycler.