Anyone ever seen red RAM before? - Page 2

Here's you some red RAM, LB, that didn't come from China. It came in an SGI 540 Visual Workstation, first released in 99, I'm not sure the year this was made though. I bought it from NASA in about 04/05. It has 3 rows of these, and 4 XEON CPUs

Originally Posted by Bear

Here's you some red RAM, LB, that didn't come from China. It came in an SGI 540 Visual Workstation, first released in 99, I'm not sure the year this was made though. I bought it from NASA in about 04/05. It has 3 rows of these, and 4 XEON CPUs

Bear I hope that your keeping that machine or at least send it to me.

From wikipedia: Because of the various SGI enhancements, in particular for the 320 and 540, Visual Workstations often out-performed Intel PCs of similar configuration in graphically-intensive or memory bound applications.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation

Originally Posted by Bear

Thanks LB, I considered digging one out of the socket for a better shot, but, it was late and this wasn't easy to get to. I used a flashlight to find my way to it, and simply stuck the camera in for a closer look. I'll check today and see how difficult it could be to pull a stick for better shot. I'm afraid this machine came out as SGI was beginning to leave the high grade/ high performance MIPS CPU, made in USA machines behind, so it could possibly be Tiawan, but only a true inspection will tell. I still like to think "not China" though ; )

OooRaaa, now that was a passel of extra exercise fo sho bro. Much appreciated. I checked mine in the pic above, I read "ES56D08BTP-5 and 0344TWN" so I'm figuring the TWN on them, is indeed the big T as you suggested. So I'm of course, jacked now to see (if it ain't too tough on ya. to find out, what's what, if you do pull them beautiful puppies out of there friend. lb

Originally Posted by CarolinaEwaste

Is there even a such thing as aftermarket when it comes to computer components?

Hehehe, I see your point CEW she's a brutal quick industry to be sure. It's kinda like an, Allmarket now. Each one of us here get's to try the water's, no matter then, yesterday, today or tomorrow, sorta like stepp'n up on a old time Merry go round. lb

yea bear thats the first of many auctions nasa had, its sad that weve reached the point where we cant fund a space program anymore and all the satellites going up are contracted out to the lowest bidder

i have been seeing alot of sgi systems hitting the scrap market latley

Originally Posted by jghilino

yea bear thats the first of many auctions nasa had, its sad that weve reached the point where we cant fund a space program anymore and all the satellites going up are contracted out to the lowest bidder

i have been seeing alot of sgi systems hitting the scrap market latley

This was well before NASA closing, I had been buying computer lots from there quite some time. I once had a formidable collection of INDYs, which I parted out before moving in early 07. I had half a dozen of these, and a number of 320s too. This 540, an OCTANE, 2 INDYs, 2 "huge" CRT SGI monitors, and a few boxes of old parts was all the SGI stuff that made the move with me (I still haven't gone through all them boxes)

These are not an easy item to ship, I shipped several complete units, and I believe the shipping cost alone was in the $40-$50 range. And the packaging was a real challenge. Actually I've had this listed on CL for a fraction of what a refurbishing company asks for theirs. without so much as a nibble, and it's actually got a much better configuration(including all 4 CPUs)

those sgi boards / parts usually have good resale value, makes good ebay fodder