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SGI Octane 2 Workstation
I bought this Octane 2 workstation long after they had been end-of-lined by Silicon Graphics, in fact it was well into the stage that they were only producing Intel/x86 systems; the heyday of their high-end MIPS workstations such as the Octane and Indigo being long forgotten.
The system was bought with the following specification:
- Single R12000 400MHz CPU
- 2GB RAM
- 18GB SCSI HDD
- Odyssey VPro V6 graphics option (32MB RAM, full 3D acceleration)
Later Upgrades
Around 2008 I picked up a couple of upgrade parts for the Octane:
- Dual R12000 400MHz CPU module
- 73GB SCSI HDD
- Odyssey VPro V8 graphics option (128MB RAM, full 3D acceleration)