a4000 sold on Ebay for $1,225????

[TeamBlackFox]

I had a 3000, years ago. Was stolen by a crooked repairman. Good little machine too. This auction... I can get an SGI Origin 2000 with over a 1000 times the power for that price.

[TeamBlackFox]

You could buy a modern PC for less than that, you can't really compare power and price. I imagine that demand for an SGI Origin 2000 is pretty low these days, very few people would be bidding on one to try to recapture their youth.

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.

[TeamBlackFox]

I tossed a few SGI machines because I found them fairly useless, "classic" or not, as would most people who simply want a classic Amiga to play with.

..and how about them classic IBM XTs?!

>because I found them fairly useless

Depends on the user I guess. I prefer UNIX for serious stuff so the SGIs aren't useless to me. Then again I'm not your average Amiga fan - I haven't touched one in 5 years. I'd sure want to have one again, an old one and a nice X1000 (But lets face it, I'm not able to drop 3k on a computer while my auto is in need of a new A/C system)

> how about them classic IBM XTs

Old x86 hardware of that vintage, doesn't do anything for me. I need to build another MS-DOS compatible machine eventually for classic games, but thats about it. MS-DOS feels like castrated UNIX.

Its funny since after I sold my laptop because I couldn't run BSD on it, I don't own a single x86 desktop or laptop. I have a few poweredge servers in storage, but those are hardly general purpose.

I also happen to be friends with one of the most infamous SGI freaks in Virginia (thebulbguy, he has two Personal Irises, an Origin 2000 thats bigger than his fridge, an Indy, an Indigo2, a Fuel, an Onyx 2, two Octanes, an Origin 350, a few Altix, not to mention a ton of non SGI hardware all crammed into a one bedroom apartment) So yeah, I have myself the best teachers of SGI hardware and we're great friends.

He also likes Amigas but has never owned one. Once I get one myself I plan on getting him to buy one. I'm already half way to getting an Amiga - just got a nice 1084s along with an SGI O2 which I am reselling to a friend, and a Sun Ultra 5 for $350, that included a ton of spare parts too for each machine.

[TeamBlackFox]

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_2000

Also, 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?

They're nice. As I said a friend of mine has one. When I saw it squealed like a little schoolgirl - no kidding.

I'd be happy to attend a group, but for personal reasons I'll be unable to host one myself.