[Marvio]

Hello all,

What a wonderful resource you guys have here for the SGI community! I just signed up for the forums, and I'm sure this question has been asked before, but after a quick search on different forums I couldn't find a thread related to buying an SGI machine recently...

I would love to get my hands on an SGI machine, you see, I used one many moons ago to do 3D rendering for a local TV station, and fell in love with it! The machine I used was the Terzo, apparently they had spent their whole IT budget on that machine for the year!

I went to the "usual suspects" online: Ebay, CL, a couple of SGI related sites, but either could not find a whole machine, or the prices were completely "out there"

So, I guess my question is...
Is it the case that SGI machines still command such prices? I've seen Octane's for 6 grand plus? That seems pretty "salty" to me, for something that is a "curiosity" at this point. I do realize there may be some hospitals out there still using SGI machines to run their CT scans, maybe a production house or two? But the actual use case scenario for these computers has to be pretty "thin" at this point, no?

I'm in the Boston area, does anybody here know where I could go, where I could look, to find some more reasonably priced machines? I've heard of people buying them at estate auctions and such, but I've no idea where to start

Thanks everybody!