[rescue] Sources of IRIX?

[Ian Finder]

They are not still used in VFX- 99.9% VFX shops were off them by 2008.
Most of the ones that pop up on eBay are from long term storage, or
university / research establishments it would seem.

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:43 Richard <legalize at xmission.com> wrote:

> In article <
> CO2PR19MB0122EFA46F36978636152228A4580 at CO2PR19MB0122.namprd19.prod.outlook.com
> >,
>     Andrew Jones <andrew at jones.ec> writes:
>
> > On 02/13/2017 03:36 PM, Richard wrote:
> > > Fuels and Tezros are the only ones that still command money from
> > > non-collectors on ebay.
> >
> > What are they still used for today, four years after support contracts
> > went dead?
> >
> > (Are Discreet licenses perpetual?)
>
> My understanding is that they are still used in viz fx.
>
> Speaking of SGI and ebay, it's been a really long time since I saw
> anything but parts for the larger/older systems.  Now I'm glad I
> picked up a bunch of machines a while back while they were still
> available and decomissioned machines from some companies.
>
> Mostly what I see on ebay are Indys and the occasional Indigo^2
> (usually teal), Octane and O2.  Less frequent are Indigo.  I haven't
> seen a Personal Iris for some time and haven't seen a deskside onyx
> forever and the fridge size Onyx/Challenge in a coon's age.
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