You *can* get a good deal on ebay

At 6:01 PM -0600 6/9/07, Richard wrote: The best deal I've *EVER* gotten from eBay was on my SGI O2 w/270Mhz R12k, I got it for $250 BIN when they were still going for close to $1k on eBay. With IRIX a dead end, I don't know how much people are going after them any more. My pair of O2's (I also have one with the slowest O2 CPU) are the most impressive workstations I've ever seen, and I'd love to have an Octane 2, Fuel, or Tezro, but unless I get them locally for basically nothing I don't see me spending the money to get one. I'm much more likely to spend money on better Sun hardware (right now I have a dual 750Mhz Sunblade 1000), as I don't collect Unix machines, I want usable machines. A Unix machine with an OS that is no longer actively supported isn't that usable to me. BTW, I actually prefer my dual 450Mhz Ultra 60 to the Sunblade 1000, as it generates a whole lot less heat! So speed isn't the only concern. Zane -- | Zane H. Healy | UNIX Systems Administrator | | healyzh at aracnet.com (primary) | OpenVMS Enthusiast | | MONK::HEALYZH (DECnet) | Classic Computer Collector | +----------------------------------+----------------------------+ | Empire of the Petal Throne and Traveller Role Playing, | | PDP-10 Emulation and Zane's Computer Museum. | | http://www.aracnet.com/~healyzh/ |