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