SGI workstation sequence

[Sridhar Ayengar]

David Holland wrote:
>>> If I were to imagine starting over in SGI's, I'd probably get an Indigo2 or
>>> an Octane2. An Indigo2 is cheap, but heavy if you're going to ship. They're
>>> basically indestructible. An Octane 2, well equipped, is the best performing
>>> workstation short of the Fuel ($$$), but still very heavy to ship. Octanes
>>> have a higher incidence (at least anecdotally - have no statistics) of
>>> mainboard/frontplane issues, compared to analogous parts in the Indigo2.
>> The Fuel isn't *that* expensive.  A lot of places are dumping their IRIX 
>> hardware nowadays, since it's no longer supported.
> 
> And one of those places would be? :-)

None of which I know of personally, but there has been a definite 
increase in the amount of recent SGI stuff showing up on ebay.

Peace...  Sridhar