#PAR It's phenomenal
24-Feb-94 21:48:04
Sb: #86368-#PAR It's phenomenal
Fm: Paul Lind 71543,2104
To: John Ellis 72440,3046
John,
The base Indy is $4995. This includes a diskless(no floppy disk/no hard disk)
box with 16 megs of ram, a R4000PC CPU, 16KB cache, dithered 8 bit graphics, 15
inch monitor, keyboard and mouse.
The R4000PC chip is slow as molasses. Minimum working level tends to be R4000SC
CPU ($4000 upgrade), internal floptical drive($500), Internal 535 meg
HD($2500), 16 meg memory upgrade($1500), External CDROM($1200) that puts you at
$14,700. If you want a base Indy with 24 bit graphics, R4400/150 CPU, 96 megs
of ram, 1 gig HD, still without a floppy drive or CDRom, and only a 16" monitor
it will run you $29,000 direct from SGI. That doesn't include the $2000 per
year hardware support. Without the support, you're totally on your own. SGI
offers no warranty past 30 days after purchase other than the hardware support.
Paul
P.S. – We just bought 2 Indigo2 Extremes and 4 Indys, so I assure you the
prices are right on the mark.