Anyone ever seen red RAM before?

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)