IPX CD-ROM, Ball Mouse, & Monitor

Michael from the Adelaide Retro Computing Group had a Sun CDROM drive arrive for recycling. He kindly sent it my way. I think it’s probably one generation newer than the IPX but it will do.

Like the DEC CDROM, it was non-functional due to leaking capacitors. Once they were replaced, it made a great addion to the lunch box stack.

Michael also came up with a very weathered Sun CPD-1790AS monitor. It really needs a lot of work to clean up the interior metalwork. It is operational though.

The original optical mouse had always been a pain. While acquiring Sun Keyboards for my Ultra 5 project, i also gained several mice, including a Sun Compact 1 Ball Mouse which work much better than the optical mouse.

SGI Indy

I bought this from Retro Computing Group member Jon.  He and our fellow member, Michael, acquired a few units and swapped parts to get a some reliable systems.  This one received a Sony power supply in place of the original which was a somewhat unreliable type (by reputation) and an additional disk (not sure if there’s a problem with the original).  Michael installed Irix 6.5.

The unit itself was in good condition and came with SGI monitor, keyboard, mouse (not working), and video camera.  It also had some books and installation media.