Well, depending on the configuration, the Indigo2 (which I'm assuming
you're
talking about) can be worth a little or a lot, as someone indicated
earlier,
which means around $100 to $1000 on eBay, and around $250 to $1500 from
a
reseller.
The system was available with a myriad of processor options (R4x00,
R8000,
R10000) and video cards (XL,XZ,Elan,Extreme,SI,HI,MI), which are the two
factors that primarily affect the price of the computer.
Things that increase price:
* High-clocked R4400 (200, 250 MHz) or R10000 processor.
* IMPACT-ready (purple chassis with SolidImpact, HighImpact, or
MaxImpact)
* TRAM upgrade installed if system is IMPACT-ready
* Internal CD-ROM installed on sled
* Large drives and lots of RAM
Things that tend to be cheaper:
* Lower-clocked R4000, R4600 (100, 133, 150 MHz)
* R8000 chip (I think it's a diamond in the rough, 75 MHz)
* Non-IMPACT systems (teal chassis with XL, XZ, Elan, or Extreme)
* Stripped of RAM and hard disk, no sleds.
* Damaged plastics (expensive to replace!)
I've got two Indigo2 machines, personally, an R8000/75 and an R4400/250,
both
with Extreme graphics, and they run wonderfully with IRIX 6.2 and are
more than
capable of doing anything that I need them to do. They do tend to have a
little bit higher resale value than, say, a Sun or a DEC, but, IMHO, a
SGI of a given vintage tends to be a little bit more usable as a
WORKSTATION than a Sun or a
DEC of similar vintage (no flames, please!) :) That said, I'd take a DEC
or a
Sun as a SERVER over a SGI in most cases.
Best of luck with it!
--Sean Caron (root_at_diablonet.net) |
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Received on Mon Jul 09 2001 - 13:36:17 BST