What-cha talkin' about, willis? We're usually flooded with SGI cdroms every year here at work. If you dont need a code or license file of some sort, then I dont see what the problem would be. The only reason we keep em around, is in case we ever need some cdrom jewel cases. Of course, i'm talking relatively newer media, such as for the Indy or indigo2 or O2 systems. -Lawrence LeMay

Maybe it's just me, but... I recently got an Indigo2 Extreme (fairly newish -- sorry, not really classic), and I've been looking high and low for IRIX 6.5. SGI is no help -- their sales department, bless their hearts, want me to shell out $600 just for the media. Other than that, it seems to be INCREDIBLY hard to come by. I even have a few friends who work at SGI, and they tell me the best they can do is sneak me some media for 6.2 (without the free development libraries and headers... they can't find those, they're a seperate disc!) Waaaaugh, I bought the hardware, why won't they give me the software? :) So, I'd have to say that IRIX is a pretty rare and hard to come by beast. Heck, I've even seen a few (very few) people selling ancient copies of IRIX 5.3 for over $100. Kinda silly if you ask me. Hopefully SGI will change this in the near future, because I'm a real fan of their stuff, and I'm so weird that I actually really LIKE IRIX as an OS. -Seth -- "You know, if there's one thing more destructive Seth J. Morabito than a hydrogen bomb, it's a hydrogen bomb strapped sethm(a)loomcom.com to the back of a MANLY MAN!!!" [James "Kibo" Parry]