[rescue] 1st SGI purchase

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 03:42:55AM +0000, Mike Meredith wrote:
> On Friday 29 March 2002 01:13, you wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 28, 2002 at 06:59:01PM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > Purple usually indicates Impact graphics of some sort; Teal is
> > > Extreme and below.  The original I2s were teal.
> >
> > But, there are a lot of teal I2s that were upgraded to impact without
> > the news skins being put on.  And, I'm sure there are a few extreme
> > machines in purple skins cause someone thought it would be cool.
> 
> That someone being SGI ... most of the purple I^2's with non-impact 
> graphics are probably "IMPACT-ready" and sold as such by SGI. There's a 
> lot of difference between a teal and a purple I^2, and it didn't make 
> sense for SGI to continue to make the teal I^2.

Well, yes that to.  But what you have to watch out for is people who put
purple skins on non-impact ready machines.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd