The collected works of Powertrip

I haven't bought a single thing from Ian. But he's spent his time responding to emails constantly since the time I started looking for SGI stuff up until yesterday (or day before, since I work graveyard shift). And it's not little one line responses. It's not just an invoice quote or an upsell. He's been realistic with my goals, my options, what products he has or will get that fit what I'm looking for...

And I'm not at this point a customer. In this business my kind of inquiries probably pan out into a sell what? 50% of the time? Less in today's market market maybe... But he still took the time. That indicates a handful of things. He's a professional and a gentleman. He isn't in this just as an income but as a passion. He enjoys helping others.

With what I'm looking at buying from him (crossing fingers he gets some in as he expects), shipping is going to be astronomical. But I'm still going to go through him. Because dedication to the service and to the customer deserve to be acknowledged.

It's just good business to support the contributing members in a community.

Considering selling my Iris Crimson. Comes with 150MHz, 256MB, Reality Engine. Machine was previously owned by Searles and was the machine that was used to model and design the drug Celebrex. I used to have the original invoice that optioned this machine out at around $640,000.

It worked when I started it up three years ago but I no longer have monitor or peripherals. If buyer wanted to bring their own and hook up to test that would be fine but will also need a power cable adapted to a non 20amp outlet.

I do not want to deal with shipping this monster but I might be able to be persuaded. I would need serious guidance on how to safely ship something this massive and fragile. Shipping costs would be up to the buyer of course.

Asking $2,000 or best offer. I do not have to sell it, but a machine like this really deserves to be somewhere it will be used at least occasionally. If there is no interested parties I will just hold onto it and hopefully I will be able to do something with it down the road.

Machine is in Florida, 32084.

Thanks for the input. I was already planning to pull the plastics if I shipped but thanks for the idea regarding the boards.

No matter what happens... This machine will never see a scrap yard at my hands. I had a lot of plans for it but I have so little free time and it just sits in my office. Either I will hold onto it until that time when I CAN properly appreciate it, or it will go to a good home where someone else will care for it lovingly!

Bump and a price drop. I would take $2,000.

Bump. Still for sale. I had an interested party say he was coming to get it but have not heard from them.