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From: blbates@AERO4.LARC.NASA.GOV ("Brent L. Bates AAD/TAB MS361 x42854")
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re:  Does SGI offer an Upgrade 3030 -> Pers.Iris for students
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Date: 28 Nov 90 14:38:45 GMT
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    SGI has offered us the "oportunity" of "upgrading" our 3130's to 4D's.
It's what we call around here a "forklift" upgrade.  In other words, you send
them your old machine PLUS MANY $$, and then they send you a 4D.  The
upgrade was a joke as far as we were concerned.  Basically, they were
allowing a ~$8k on the old machine and we couldn't upgrade to a Personal, it
had to be a higher end machine.  The 3000's are completely incompatable
with the 4D's so you can't just do some board swapping.
Sorry about the bad news.  Hope this helps.
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	Brent L. Bates
	NASA-Langley Research Center
	M.S. 361
	Hampton, Virginia  23665-5225
	(804) 864-2854
	E-mail: blbates@aero4.larc.nasa.gov or blbates@aero8.larc.nasa.gov