Arfon Gryffydd <arfonrg(a)texas.net> wanted to know: There were a number of mostly-accurate replies to this yesterday. Seeing as how I wrote the FAQ, I'd like to present the mostly-definitive reply. First, this is a 68020-based, Multibus machine. Nothing at all in common with the later MIPS systems. According to William Donzelli <william(a)ans.net>et>: IRIX 3.6 was the last OS distributed. There's some incomplete 3.7 stuff kicking around, but probably not of interest to most. To my knowledge, no open-source unix has ever been ported to one. X is not supported, though TCP/IP is, so you can get it on the network, but it's going to take you a bit of work to make it useful, like compiling bind, as they predated DNS. Your server will offer you a delightful choice of drives: ST506, ESDI, or SMD. No SCSI. Note that when SGI put out the first 4D (MIPS R2K/R3K) machines, they called the OS IRIX 3.something as well, just to create confusion. IMnot-so-HO, that's too much money. Stuff of that vintage should be GIVEN to you for nothing. Pay 'em $90 only if they'll deliver. Yes, they all have ethernet. Want a unix box? If so, they're worth grabbing. Monitors are fixed-sync RGB, and probably not useful on anything else you have or might get. As it happens, there's another (non-list) chap for whom I've been getting my 3130 running again (a bad video board, then a blown /etc/passwd...) in order to generate a boot/install tape. I'd be much more enthusiastic about doing it if there were a few other people on the list who need them as well, so I can do a bunch at one time. Jonathan