Richard wrote:
  Unhelpfulness of the seller?  They posted lots of
questions that were
 asked and considering that I was the only bidder, that seems like it
 was more trouble than it was worth.  
I did get a little worried when they couldn't tell me if there was
installation media there or not - if the hard disk is toast then without it
it's just a big (albeit cool-looking) boat-anchor, unless the Dutch crowd with
one of these can supply media copies or a hard disk image.
But that's probably just my natural caution against using ebay as a selling
medium - I tend to always feel like I'm going to get screwed :-)
   I want pics!
 I want a camera! :-) 
 
Surely you have an SGI with an Indycam knocking around? ;)
cheers
Jules