[jan-jaap]

I just came into an Indy (R4600SC 133mhz 96MB ram) running Irix 5.3. I know they're supposed to be slow, but is it normal for them to take a minute+ to load the logins off the disk or to load the applications folder?

This happens if the DNS is not configured properly. Make sure the Indy can resolve it's hostname, and that it's IP resolves to it's hostname. Also inspect /etc/nsswitch.conf and make sure the 'hosts:' entry doesn't try to use NIS if you don't have it. But it's probably just misconfigured DNS.