[tech] Acquisition of the UCC's SGI O2

[Nick Bannon]

On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 08:34:53AM +0800, warrick at lostris.wyvern.com.au wrote:
[...]
> I have it as I have arranged to get SGI to tell me what exactly is 
> wrong, if it's the mb it's around $1500, if it's the cpu I don't 
> know what the cost is. 

Excellent - any idea of when?

[...]
> Personally why would we want to swap a machine that can be fixed, 
> for a slower older machine? 

Well, my first thought was "great, we're definitely getting the better
end of the deal"! Fixing it would be certainly be nice, but I'd rather
have a working older machine (with a decent amount of RAM) than some
spare parts for a newer model... If we had another O2, that decision
would be different - if Peter Dreisiger has one, or prospects of one,
or just wants an O2 at any cost, that would be a sensible swap.

Nick.

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