[Gllug] For Sale - SGI O2 + Origin Server (with prices)

[Richard Cottrill]

James Bailey wrote:

> They currently belong to a university. They are being replaced with
> Wintel box's and so they want to sell them. Ideally they want to sell all
> in one go. They have been ringing round companies and they have had one
> offer for a company to buy them for spare parts. They have offered £150
> each for the O2's (with mouse/keyboard & monitor) 
> and £350 for the Origin.

Would the O2s make usable desktops? Can I realistically expect to run 
GNOME/KDE and Mozilla or OpenOffice on one of these beasties? Are they 
just to be considered as big X terminals? For £150 inc. monitor I think 
I'll take one (close to Baker St. tube too ;-)

Richard


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