OFF: Now I've seen everything (at the thriftshop)

[nathan r. hruby]

On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Rob Brandt wrote:

> 
> Today I saw at my favorite thriftshop 2 SGI Iris Indigo workstations.  
> I don't know anything about them except that they used to be insanely
> expensive.  They look like this model I found on eBay:
> 
> http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3403351899&category=11223
> 
> Obviously they're not worth much anymore.  The question is, are they
> still useful for anything?  FWIW, they don't appear to have any
> accessories included.
>  They are on the 'waiting to be priced' shelf, so I couldn't take a
> detailed look at them.
> 

They are next to worthless, unless you need really trendy doorstops.  The 
Elitists in the room will flame me for saying so, but the reality is that 
they'll probably boot if they have ram and disks (if nto you'll need to 
spend more on those itmes than you pay for the Indigo) and you can find a 
head to plug into them or an adpter, Irix will be so slow as to make you 
yearn for redhat 8.0 on a 48DX2/25.

-n
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