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I see that you are also a nz user. I am as well, so thought I would reach out.

I am a professional photographer living just outside Christchurch, and have a couple of SGI machines. An O2 and an Octane that I am trying to get going, after many years in storage.

How did you come to be interested in SGI? Was it related to your engineering career? Or something else?

I initially got interested in SGI in the late 90's when I was transitioning to digital photography, one of the labs I used was offering retouching, using Alias Eclipse on an Indigo2. I looked at them and considered going with an O2 and Photoshop 3. Then reality kicked in and I bought a Mac instead for about 20% of the price. But I always wanted one, and some years back I managed to pick up a couple of bunches of machines people were getting rid of for peanuts.

I have a bunch of spare stuff for O2's and Octanes if you are interested, I like to trade and have made contact with a few others here in NZ, as shipping from overseas is a hassle, but sometimes a necessary one. If we NZ users can trade amongst ourselves, all the better to save a bit of money on shipping, and keep these great little machines going strong.

Cheers,
Jason.


KiwiMEI've had a worldwide-input switching power brick fail when I moved it from 120 ( using a step-down transformer) to 240 for the first time in the space of about 1 minute, which is what I blame it on.  My various older computers that had been only used on 120 while in the states generally have had no issues with changing to the 240-ish found in NZ, but sometimes the AC filtering caps fail soon afterwards.