23 Oct
2007
23 Oct
'07
9:26 a.m.
On 23/10/07 11:02, "Ethan Dicks" <ethan.dicks at gmail.com> wrote:
So for the more experienced SGI folks - do you feel
that an Indy or
Indigo is responsive enough to be reasonable to use, or is it worth
holding out for something newer and most likely more expensive to
acquire? Also, something I don't know much about, do the older
personal graphic workstations use odd or impossible-to-find memory, or
are they easy/cheap to load up?
I think that you'd find them a little sluggish / limited for *real* use.
That said, they're both fantastic computers in their own right. Beautifully
made and very stylish. To my mind, nothing says "90's computing" like an
SGI box and their current highly affordable status surely can't last.
Lawnmower man and VR chic must be due a revival. ;-)
I have a 300Mhz R12000 Octane with 1.5GB of RAM and a couple of 72GB SCSI
disks running IRIX 6.5.22. It isn't quite on-topic being c. 1999 vintage
but it runs the latest Nekoware build of Firefox 2 and with the adblock
extension to remove Flash crapware (IRIX only supports Flash up to version
5) it feels every bit as responsive as, say, a late model PowerBook G4.
Surely not many other computers of that vintage can make such a claim?
-Austin.
P.S. The Octane in question was a freebie - you can get Octanes and O2's for
next-to-nothing.