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Unread postPosted: Fri Jan 20, 2012 3:49 pm 
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I use my Indigo as a bookend, a duty which it fulfills both admirably and competently.


At least it is doing something useful :mrgreen:

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R-ten-K wrote:
I use my Indigo as a bookend, a duty which it fulfills both admirably and competently.

Cool ! now, get it copper plated, like baby shoes :P
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hamei wrote:
R-ten-K wrote:
I use my Indigo as a bookend, a duty which it fulfills both admirably and competently.

Cool ! now, get it copper plated, like baby shoes :P

If you can do a couple I might buy a set. :)

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Hello,

I am a new member of the forum and wanted to ask you for advise. I was offered a nice o2+ (400mhz) for a decent price and I am thinking to buy it. I was playing with IRIX some years ago at my university. Do you use your SGIs (o2) on daily basis? Is it still a capable computer worth spending few hundreds? Are there any things you can only do on SGIs?

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It depends on what you would need it for, don't expect it to perform like a modern era x86/x64 Intel or AMD machine in every task. Web browsing on all but the higher end machines is painful, but C/C++ programming, practice with UNIX and something new to learn are all very viable on an O2. I had a R5k 300mhz a few months back, it worked great as a frontend for my Origin 300s and since got a Fuel to do that job.

Definitely make sure you've got a decent U160/U320 drive like a Maxtor Atlas II 15k or Seagate 15k.3, that made a huge boost in my O2's loading times of IRIX.

Having and using a SGI machine today is unique to the individual, I won't speak for everyone on here, but I get a huge sense of enjoyment out of working on them in tandem with my current generation AMD hardware.

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