[SunRescue] SS10 Memory - sale/trade

[Mike Meredith]

On Friday 13 April 2001 20:49, you wrote:
> Lately, I have been wanting
> to get an SGI box.  Should I
> just find an Indy on e-bay
> and go for it? I'm worried that

I'd check prices with the resellers first ... sometimes ebay prices get 
a little ridiculous.

> the level of community support
> might not be as good for SGI as
> it is for Sun. Are there any sites
> like Sun rescue for SGI? How

There's a few places. There's an sgihelp list (run off of sgihelp.org), 
but it's a bit on the quiet side. Like Sun, SGI also has the complete 
manuals on the web, and has a freeware site (better than Sun 
themselves, but not as good as sunfreeware.com).

Getting hold of the IRIX cd's can be a little tricky --- SGI still 
sells them for a ridiculous amount although you can (apparently) 
sometimes trick them into sending you a replacement media set. And 
together with the overlays, it's a *lot* of cd's (makes Solaris look 
anaemic). It's possible to find friendly SGIers with a CD burner though.

In my biased opinion, SGI's tend to make better desktop machines than 
older Sun's --- my Indigo^2 still competes quite well with my Ultra-10 
at work.

> much should I expect to pay
> for a complete system w/monitor?

Sorry, no idea.