Joshua on Wed, 20 Jul 2005 00:16:12 -0500 (CDT)


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Re: [hosers-talk] Is it wrong?


"Jon Stewart" sez:
>> 
>> "Jon Stewart" sez:
>> >Is it wrong to want to buy an old SGI workstation off of eBay (say, a big 
>> >fat Octane) just so I can gut it and put a PC in the case?
>> >
>> >I feel like that would be cool. I also feel like it would be wrong to kill 
>> >a working SGI, just to perform taxidermy on it.
>> 
>> couldn't you put the sgi in a pc case?
>
>
>No, that would be silly -- the idea is that I can build a PC system 
>within the case and keep upgrading components as necessary over years and 
>years. Although there are still a number of SGI 

well, yes, i got that. the idea would be to keep the sgi on life support,
thus skirting the horrible guilt of having killed it and wasted it merely
for its sexy husk.


josh

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