The Fastest SGI In The UK
Yesterday I drove to Edinburgh and back. Now we’ve pretty much got to the end of deciding where things are going in the new house, it turned out that there wasn’t really room for my SGI Challenge L machine any more, so I took it up to live out the rest of it’s days with Ian Mapleson, of the SGI Depot.
Given that the thing weighs just short of 100kg, it was quite a struggle getting it into the car, but once it was strapped down, it was a pretty uneventful drive really.
I’ve chatted with Ian via email quite a bit in the past, and he’s very well known in the SGI community, but I’d never visited him before. His house up in Edinburgh is completely stacked with all things SGI, from the Challenge XL in the garage, to the Octanes in the bedroom, right through to the Fuels in the lounge. It think he’s got around 150+ machines there in various states.
The Challenge L took it’s place in the garage along side it’s big brothers, the Challenge XL and Onyx.
Hey I just donated an Octane and a Qube2 to UC Berkeley, I feel your pain!
I’m headed back to the UK in a few months, do you know of any good places for older surplus server hardware?
Comment by Bob — December 1, 2008 @ 2:01 pm