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Re: swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000
« on: August 22, 2007, 10:30:40 PM »
I remember when SGIs sold for thousands and thousands of dollars and were incredibly fancy machines. Are they even real market players anymore?

Anyway I also dont think you're going to get this trade. You might be able to find someone who'd trade an Amiga 2000 for it, but you'll be pretty lucky if you find someone who'll trade a decked out 4000 for it. Who knows though... good luck!
 

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Re: swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2007, 10:33:53 PM »
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And it can easily outperform an amiga 4000, at 300mhz+256mb ram.


You're right. However, performance isn't the main factor here.

You may have more luck finding a trade if you posted to some video/graphics oriented forums rather than an Amiga forum. Maybe you can find someone with an old Amiga video editting setup who wants to upgrade. To that sorta person, an Amiga 4000 is kind of an old piece of junk. To an Amiga enthusiast, good luck convincing them that your SGI is better. Its just a matter of your target audience.

 

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Re: swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2007, 12:08:46 AM »
Agreed. If I had 2 Amiga 4000s, I might consider it, even knowing that an A4000 is worth much more on ebay. I'm not a big believer in ebay prices.

That said I dont have even 1 Amiga 4000 so its kind of a moot point.

I do think posting the same message in a video/graphics oriented forum might get a better response.
 

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Re: swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000
« Reply #3 on: August 23, 2007, 04:26:03 AM »
The main problem with SGIs is that Irix is a pretty shortbus-riding Unix. You can run Linux on them, but then you probably cant run the cool SGI graphics software. Guess it depends on your needs.
 

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Re: swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000
« Reply #4 on: August 23, 2007, 05:13:25 PM »
Wow, religious fanatics are funny... Amigas were awesome computers in their day (which ended 12 years ago). They're still lots of fun as toys and have lots of nostalgia value. However, the people who are shouting rabidly about how Amigas are sooooooooo muuuuuuuuuch betterrrrrrrrrrr than [insert other things here] in this thread kind of remind me of 45 year old guys with long thinning hair and worn out Anthrax tshirts complaining about how any music aside from 1980s metal is "lame." Nostalgia is one thing, but desperate clinging to the past is kind of sad. There have been plenty of computers made since the Amiga which are cool, and substantially better than Amigas. That doesn't lessen the value of Amigas. While I'm sure that had Amiga survived, modern Amigas would be way cooler than most other modern machines, that didn't happen and there hasn't been a new Amiga since Escom's version of the 4000T (unless you want to count prototypes like the Walker).

If you don't like SGIs and don't want one, don't trade for it. There's no reason to sit here like Grumpy Old Man {bleep}ing about how awesome the past was and how everything else sucks.
 

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Re: swap: my SGI o2 for an amiga 4000
« Reply #5 on: August 24, 2007, 05:04:49 PM »
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Following that path of events one cannot assert that he's calling you idiot by not using a SGI, but for not using a SGI and yet providing such quote.


That was my interpretation as well.

"D00D Ive nevar used one but I gnow they are teh suxx0r!!"

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