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i am limiting myself to just one sgi, or i would definitely get an o2 and some others.
i don't have the room, or the time to mess with more than one.

i am sure eventually these plastic cases will get rebuilt with new manufacture plastics.
you can rent a industrial laser scanner for the day to scan everything yourself, should be about $300.
get someone to clean it up in cad, then have it prototyped out.

i'm going to build my sgi into a time machine so i can return to '99.
i'd like to install all the old software we had back then if i can find it anywhere.
we had tons of stuff installed on them, all the professional apps.
maya, alias studio, xsi, blender, shake, photoshop, and more but i forget what it all was.

i would use a sgi emulator if it was not a useless piece of shit. i heard the mame emulation is only 1/10 of the speed of a blue indy system, and nobody is working on improving it anymore either. i didn't even bother to install it and see, because im pretty sure i wouldn't be able to run my old software.

you mention not wanting to change scsi id for special drives, which ones?
i am planning to get a zuluscsi, i suppose it's not fast enough to use as a hdd but i would use it like a cd drive.

network install is only possible from a second sgi irix machine, right?
so i am planning to install irix using the zuluscsi.

i have seen raion mention using a null modem cable to use remote terminal for things, i was not sure what he meant its useful for.
do you know what its for? why use that instead of ethernet?