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Post #10 by Cory5412
Source Forum68kMLA
CategoryNetworking
Post DateTue, 15 Nov 2011 - 20:32
Original URLhttps://68kmla.org/bb/threads/sgi-systems.24217/
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You mentioned a network card in the PCI box. Does that network card also have PS/2 ports on it?

If so, it may have the fairly cool cadduo set of options installed. It essentially allowed one Octane (in nearly any config) be used as a workstation for two people. It was way cheaper than buying two different octanes for a pair of folks (developers, CAD designers, 3d animators) whose workloads either fit into one processor each, or were alternating in schedule. (i.e. user A writes/reads code while User B compiles, and then they alternate.)

The model sticker on the back, along with some tags it may have attached in the "options" areas should have revealed the CPU speeds without opening the machine.

Both the Octane and the Indy are nice systems. I had a 200MHz R4400SC Indy with maxed ram, dual disks, 24xl graphics, and indyvideo+cosmocompress. It was nice but for all of the options I had, it wasn't actually very useful. (like, at the time, in 2003/2004, I could browse the web on it, but it was never very good at video capture.)

It's also worth noting that although the graphics connectors are 13W3, they use different syncing than Sun does.

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