[rescue] what to ask for an Onyx?

[Joshua D. Boyd]

On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 10:57:07AM +0100, Walter Belgers wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does anybody have a clue what I could ask for my SGI Onyx?
> 
> Rackmount, 4x R4400 at 100Mhz, only 64MB memory and 1GB disk. Two RE2
> pipes, both with multi-channel option board.

Oh, that's nearly worthless.  Just donate it to some random recent
college grad.

Seriously, I'd be surprised if it was worth more than $1k, but probably
more than $500.  On the one hand, it is a rack and has dual RE2, on the
other hand, that is a fairly crummy CPU board, and way too little
memory.

By comparison, a racked IR, quad R10k machine seems to be worth about
$1.5k to $2k.  Of course, items like ASO, Sirius, and fancy SCSI, FC-AL,
or HIPPI boards, not to mention more CPUs and graphics pipes, all can
contribute to pushing the price on a racked onyx up quite a bit.  I
recently say a guy with a 8proc R10k Onyx with 4 gigs of ram ASO,
Sirius, and some sort of HIPPI and FC-AL board go for several grand.  He
had used it as an Inferno.