Its not that type of need/want for an Origin 2000. Its the fact that the machine cost over a million brand new, and while its useless for general purpose computing its still very useful for research purposes - its basically a rackmounted cluster of MIPS cpus. The point I was trying to make was that the value of the Origin 2000 is really there, with this A4000 its not worth this price paid - at all. I like Amigas, but will probably never own a high end classic one because if I need a classic machine I have my SGI Fuel and Octane, and they have the added benefit of being fully POSIX compliant and able to act as a fancy X11 terminal if I wanted to do all my work via them.
Just googled "Origin 2000". OMG, wow! That's what I love about amiga.org, the opportunity to learn about something new.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Origin_2000Also, I see you're located in NoVA? For a while we were trying to start up another user's group in our area, had a couple really fun meetups but no one has had time to host one since around last winter. Will have to put you on my list to reach out if we get it going again, unless you're able/interested in hosting one?
