Restraint of tongue and pen?

I just sent this off to SGI via the web form. We’ll see if anyone gets back to me. I know I get more with honey than vinegar, but I’m a little angry that they can’t be bothered to sell me some software or return my emails or phone calls.

With my RS/6000, all it took was one phone call to IBM. $50 and a fax to them declaring that I had legally purchased my machine later I was an IBM customer with a customer ID number and a set of install CDs for AIX 4.3.3. With this ahem gosh darn ahem SGI the install CDs are sold on eBay for $200 a set WITHOUT LICENSE.

You know it’s a sad day for your company when IBM is better at catering to the amateur hobbyist than you are. I know at this stage SGI is back to being two guys sitting in a garage, but still.

I have an SGI Indigo2 workstation that I recently aquired with the hard drives wiped clean. I have no installation media and I don’t know what the licensing requirements are for Irix on this system. I am interested in getting the system running, but I am not interested in being a software pirate. I want to have a licensed version of the OS.

Emails and phone calls to you so far have resulted in icy silence. I realize that one studio with legacy hardware is not a big source of revenue for you, but I’d appreciate some information.

How do I go about buying a license and install media of Irix for my system, and how much will that cost? That’s all I want to know.

Please respond.

Thank you