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rapidograph - SGI Indy

20 November, 2002

Model CMN B006, S/N 0800690A3321

030-8123-016 mainboard:

  • 1 IP24 CPU Module slot
  • 1 Graphics Board I/O slot
  • 8 72-pin SIMM slots, in 2 banks of 4 slots each:
    • 64 MB in 4 ea. 4Mx36 70ns FPM SIMMs
    • 32 MB in 4 ea. 2Mx36 70ns FPM SIMMs


  • 2x Crystal Semiconductor CX4216-XL2 audio CODECs
  • Level One LXT907 10 Mbit Ethernet controller
  • Phillips SAA7191B digital multistandard video signal decoder
  • Siemens PEB2086-N ISDN Subscriber Access controller
  • Siemens SAB82525 Extended High-level Serial Communication Controller
  • SGI Indy Chipset: 2x DMUX1, EDLC, HAL2, HPC3, IOC1, MC1, VINO
  • Western Digital WD33C93 Single-Ended Fast SCSI-2 controller

Built-in ports ("any port in a brainstorm")

  • Analog Audio Headphone (1/8" phono)
  • Analog Audio Line-In (1/8" phono)
  • Analog Audio Line-Out (1/8" phono)
  • Analog Audio Microphone (1/8" phono)
  • Composite Video Out (RCA)
  • Digital Audio I/O (1/8" phono)
  • Ethernet AUI (DA15F)
  • Ethernet TP (RJ45)
  • IndyCam (DA60F)
  • ISDN BRI (RJ45)
  • Keyboard (6 pin miniDIN - "PS/2")
  • Mouse (6 pin miniDIN - "PS/2")
  • Parallel (DB25F)
  • RS232/RS422 Serial 1 (8 pin miniDIN)
  • RS232/RS422 Serial 2 (8 pin miniDIN)
  • Single-Ended SCSI (HD50)
  • SVideo Out (4 pin miniDIN)

030-0882-001 CPU module

  • 200 MHz MIPS R4400 CPU
  • 1 MB L2 cache

Internal drive bays

  • IBM model DCAS-34330 hard disk: dks0d1
    • Ultrastar 2ES
    • 4.2 GB, 5400 RPM, 3.5" LP
    • Single-ended Ultra SCSI, 50-pin

XZ ("Express") Graphics

  • 24 color bitplanes
  • 4 stencil bitplanes
  • 4 overlay bitplanes
  • 4 window clipping ID planes
  • 1280x1024 @ 72 Hz
  • Composite sync-on-green
  • 24-bit hardware Z-buffer
  • GR4 ("X") board:
    • Stereo video port (3 pin miniDIN)
    • 4x GE7 geometry engines
    • RE3.1 raster engine
    • HQ2.1 command engine
    • 4 MB DRAM in 20 ea. 256k x 4 70ns
    • 1 MB DRAM in 8 ea. 64k x 16 80ns
    • 128 kB SRAM in 4 ea. 32k x 8 15ns
    • 24 kB SRAM in 3 ea. 8k x 8 15ns
  • VB3 ("Z") board:
    • Monitor port (DB13W3F)
    • Genlock port (small coax)
    • 5x XMAP7 Z-buffers
    • 3x 135 MHz Bt457 RAMDACs
    • 5 MB VRAM in 10 ea. 256k x 16 70ns
    • 32 kB SRAM in 1 ea. 32k x 8 15ns
    • 120 kB SRAM in 15 ea. 8k x 8 15 ns

060-0008-001 Autoranging PSU

  • Sony model APS-81
  • 100-120, 200-240VAC
  • 50/60 Hz
  • 171W max

Software installed

  • IRIX 6.5.3f

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