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nyef wrote: Welcome, welcome.

I see one on eBay right now as a buy-it-now, $160, free shipping, no drives, no drive caddies, damaged hinge of some sort... Apparently spins up, but no guarantee that it actually works . http://www.ebay.com/itm/Silicon-Graphics-CMNB007Y75-Indigo-2-Unix-Workstation-POWER-TESTED-ON-ONLY-Used-/331604819359?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item4d352ffd9f

If you do get this, note that it has the 13W3 connector for video. SGI and SUN 13W3 connectors are not entirely compatible, so be careful when you buy an adaptor.

hjw3001 wrote: Welcome!

I recently purchased a working teal Indigo 2 from Craigslist. Create a saved search that will email you when someone lists an SGI for sale. You can also create saved searches on eBay.

vishnu wrote: Welcome! Glad you found our tiny little outpost of outcasts here in the Land that Time Forgot...

Not to be a pooty parper , but unless you've got some of the applications that the Indigo2 was designed to run, for example Pro/ENGINEER, Power Animator, Maya, etc., then even a high end Indigo2 isn't going to be very useful. Or, at least not very useful for anything here in the Modern Era. You could argue, and in fact we argue about it a lot, that a higher end Octane2, Fuel, O350/Tezro are still useful for a tiny handful of tasks that the Modern Era would still consider relevant. Though I think the majority opinion here would tend to slant against that viewpoint. And that would the opinion of people who still really love these machines. I know I love mine (2x600MHz Octane2 and 2x700MHz Tezro)...

Trippynet wrote: Indeed, it's about finding the right applications to run. My Indigo2 gets used for playing music via XMMS (300GB secondary hard drive full of tunes), for playing some ScummVM games, for messing around with Perl, and for general IRIX experimenting. Indigo2s can also be used to some degree for Blender and other 3D tasks, so long as you don't exceed the hardware's capabilities (ie, trying textured stuff with anything less than HighIMPACT). Of course, more complex work will always benefit from a higher spec machine, but I use my Indigo2 mainly because for nostalgia reasons, I have much more of a fondness for it than my Fuel, despite the additional performance that the Fuel offers.

For browsing the web or other modern tasks though, it's no good for this sort of thing, so you have to be realistic with expectations.

For obtaining a machine, I'd highly recommend a posting in "Wanted". There's often folk in the US wanting to move machines around, so if you're willing to drive a bit, you might be able to pick up a nice machine for very little.

EDIT: One quick note though, teal Indigo2s are usually MIPS R4400 processor systems. These are MIPS3, and so cannot use the main Nekoware repository. This requires MIPS4 (R5000/R7000 and R10000+). Of course with some customising of internal components, there's nothing to stop you putting the guts from a later R10000 Indigo2 into a teal case...

foetz wrote:

Trippynet wrote: teal Indigo2s are usually MIPS R4400 processor systems

which makes them the most versatile of all. they can run everything from irix 4 to 6.5.22

Trippynet wrote:

foetz wrote: which makes them the most versatile of all. they can run everything from irix 4 to 6.5.22

True, but if you want to "max out" an Indigo2, an R10000 will provide better performance, and I'd imagine he's more likely to want IRIX 6.5 than an earlier flavour.

ivelegacy wrote: budget ?

ivelegacy wrote:
From the price list I have seen around, I am afraid the price will be ~250..300USD, without the TRAM

Trippynet wrote: Problem with MaxImpact boards is that they used to be plentiful some years back, but due to TRAM failures and the lack of Indigo2s being recycled these days, they've become increasingly rare, and hence the price has gone up.

ivelegacy wrote: I have bought a MaxImpact for a friend who is not familiar with ebay/dealears/forums but good at OpenGL programming, so I contacted a dealer in USA and I had a discount: 90 days of warranty included, we payed 300 USD shipped plus the 22% of fee to import, which is, from my point of view, too much money! I mean I think Octane is a better and cheaper system, especially considering I have for sale an Odyssey V6 GFX , asked 50 euro, and V6 against MaxImpact , comparing gfx about the perfromance/cost ratio, the Odysseay wins, it's staggeringly { faster, most featured, cheaper } by several orders of magnitude different.

cybercow wrote: If you still need texturing, and you picked the Indigo2 as your choice, maybe High Impact will do, not as fast as max but still faster than solid, and can do texturing, should be budget friendlier than max, generates less heat, eats less power.