[rescue] R4400 Indigo value

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Sat, 15 Jun 2002, Torquil MacCorkle, III wrote:

>     I am being offered a Indigo R4400 150mhz machine with Elan graphics, a
> Tape drives, 2 tapes, a CD-Rom drive, 4gb & 3gb hard drives, and a Keyboard
> and Mouse for $100.(I can pick it up). Am I getting a good deal?

If you're not an SGI person, and have limited interest in becoming one,
$100 probably isn't a good deal.  The Indigo R4k was a wonderful little
machine.  The R4.4k systems are almost unheard-of.  Elan is the best gfx
option they had.

The machine is also about 8 years out-of-date, and will be a little slow
as an IRIX 6.5 workstation.  It will run 5.3 or 6.2 admirably, though.

It's a toss-up.  If I had the money, it'd be worth $100 to me, because
it's a prime (and usable) specimen of a wonderful piece of hardware.  But,
if you're looking for something to use and abuse on a daily basis, the
bang for the buck really isn't there.

You neglected to mention how much memory is installed in the system.  The
memory is easily-enough to obtain, but it's not very cheap ($1/MB from
Reputable, $2/MB or so from anywhere else other than eBay).

--Jonathan