SGI 1100 on the road to new again

A few months ago, I bought an SGI 1100 1U server off of ebay for $200. It is brand new and has never been used. The guy that sold it was an SGI dealer and parts them out to increase his earnings. On my road to rebuilding it, I’ve been in search for a matched pair of Intel Pentium 3 1Ghz socket 370 processors and as of 15 minutes ago, I found and purchased some.

So the SGI is on it’s way to being rebuilt. All I have left to buy is some ram and a few heatsinks. This site may be moved to that server, I don’t know yet. I do know one thing for sure, the SGI is as loud, if not louder, than a vacuum. These 40mm fans just do not support sleep mode of the human being that controls them. So I’m working up a deal with my father to get the basement wired up for our internet because we have a dedicated dsl phone line for it, due to static in the others.

That’s your blurb for today, stay tuned.