My SGI boxes get a memory boost
Today I won a few auctions on eBay for some RAM. I paid US$20 for four sticks of 32MB, and US$7 for eight sticks of 8MB. Postage was next-to-nothing (the RAM will weigh a few grams and is quite small in size).
The problem I had was that the seller would only ship to US postal addresses, and as you all know, I don’t live in the States. That’s where Withered comes in ;)
Mark’s been spending heaps of time in the US lately, working with Wired City in the US. OSISoft (they used to be Wired City’s parent company, but now they’ve merged so the lines are even blurrier) has an office on the West Coast and Mark has a few mates there. One of them was kind enough to assist in the relaying of mail for me. To make things even better, there’s a chance I could get it through their internal mail system, which means there’d be no charge! :)
Now I’ll have two SGI Indys, and one SGI Indigo2 Impact, with enough RAM in them to actually be useful. 32MB in each of the Indys really wasn’t enough, and they hurt when running anything remotely intensive. As an onsite Debian server they make nice ‘appliance’ boxes, and as an X Terminal they rock!
Again, yay for Debian’s 11 architectures! And yay for Mark’s general wickedness!
OSISoft hey.. I wondered who was Wired’s corporate master. I didn’t know they were still around.
It is probably a different OSIsoft to what you are thinking. They are a 20 year old company that only got a marketing department 2 years ago so no one outside of the process industry had heard of them until then.
You’re not thinking of OZISoft are you Hale; they used to make a stack of Atari Games ;)
Ah, that must be it. I wondered what an old games publisher wanted with Withered ;)
… yeah, why would they want Withered over me!? I am heaps more retro-gamer than he is ;)