[Trantor]

Hello guys, nice to know that there is some place on the net where people can talk about this machines! 
I fell in love with Silicon Graphics from the first moment I sat in front of an Indy in '96. I was chosen to be the one that could do his final high school project at the IT office of Elsag/Bailey... nothing fancy, but after a couple of days where I was programming some network utilities on a pc, the office manager saw me and asked what I was doing here. The moment I spelled the work "network" he stopped me and said something like: "So why the heck they put you on that machine? Tell Graziano to make you and account on the Unix one!". Well the Unix machine was the Indy and it was a mindblowing experience... I've had used *nix before first on a dumb terminal at school and later in '95 my first linux versions (I think one of the first slackware distributed on 2 cdroms)... nothing was nearly comparable to what I saw on the Indy!
They told me: "here is your account, change the password when you log in, the machine is a high specced one, so don't blow it up. Ah you have internet (I think it was a 1 mbit connection), please don't fill too much the hard disk with p0rn pictures... as we've already other machines devoted to that." 
Well, think of a 17 years old little nerd that can freely use (later even with administrative account) such a machine for his last high school year 1 full day a week in place of a full school day... it was like winning the national lottery 

Jumping forward to 2018, I've just found an Indigo 2 that needs some love to make it work again. I think I will need to install a fresh copy of Irix on it (I have somewhere some Irix 5.something cds), but since I don't yet have it with me I don't even know if it's equipped with a cdrom. I will surely need some help in giving again some life to her. After that I will use her as my cross-development machine for other retro machines (I think mainly for the c64 and other 8 bit machines). I will need to make some simple ports and maybe make some new tools, but I think it will be a nice way to develop on retro machines 
While I wait to have her in my hands, you have some advices on what to check before trying to power her up for the first time?