[rescue] Machine valuation; Was SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for $25M

[JP Hindin]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2009, Brian Roth wrote:
> Ahhh! Cray. Been looking a long time for one of those.  Missed out on a  Y-MP
> EL years ago from my own stuborness and have regretted it ever since.
> Yes, the 3800 is sweet. I have a 16 proc O2K as well and I am actually trying
> to aquire a total of 8 racks with a Meta Router. I see O3K's all over the
> place but the O2K's are getting broken into pieces for sale on Ebay.

Hey;

So this brings up a question I have pondered over the years, as I've
picked up new gems for the basement (or brother-in-law's garage, in this
case, woe as me) - I'd like to know what the original value was.

For example, in particular I'm thinking of my Sun E10000, 64GB RAM, 64x
466mHz processors. I've seen suggestions that have ranged from $5m to $10m
for this single machine, had it been bought from the factory floor as
configured back in '99/'00 when it was new. I have absolutely no clue how
realistic those figures are - for all I know they're from people who are
very wishful in their thinking.

How would you folks go about determining what something like this cost?

Cheers;

 - JP

> --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net> wrote:
> From: Ethan O'Toole <ethan at 757tech.net>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] SGI files Ch11 again, bought by Rackable for $25M
> To: "The Rescue List" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009, 11:53 AM
>
> > What your buying is millions more of debt though and a lot of angry/worried
> customers.
> > Its funny, I have a 3800 in my basement from NASA. Original cost about 2.2
> Million in 2002. Talk about depreciation!
>
> Nice! The recently mentioned $3 mil system was from when I worked at NASA.
> They
> are still using it (gave it to a different divison). Everyone is going
> clusters
> of PCs.
>
> Congrats on the 3800. That is the last big box I think I'd go for. I've
> got an Origin 2000 (16 proc, 1 rack), Onyx deskside (still) and a Cray
> J932SE.
>
> Might be getting a new office/clubhouse soon in Virginia Beach. If this
> happens
> then perhaps we will get the cray running.
>
> It uses lots of 50 pin SCSI disk (shipped with 30). Hoping to scale that
> back.
>
> Also worried about the "scan chain files" that can supposedly be
> problematic if you don't have original stuff.
>
>
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