Query on 3130 Iris

[Peter Shenkin]

To make a long story short, someone is offering me a used but maintained
3130 for $25k.

(1) Do you think this is a good price?
(2) I've heard the Fortran compiler is awful -- eg, can't use units 5,6
    as stdin and stdout for UNIX redirects.  Do you know a way around this?
    Is there a 3rd party Fortran compiler around which corrects this?
(3) Can you suggest any sgi guru's worth consulting?
(4) Can you suggest any questions that I should have asked, but didn't?  (And
    if you know the answers, too, so much the better!)

Thanks, if you can help....
	-P.

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Peter S. Shenkin,    Department of Biological Sciences,    Columbia University,
New York, NY   10027         Tel: (212) 280-5517 (work);  (212) 829-5363 (home)
shenkin at cubsun.bio.columbia.edu    shenkin%cubsun.bio.columbia.edu at cuvma.BITNET
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Peter S. Shenkin,    Department of Biological Sciences,    Columbia University,
New York, NY   10027         Tel: (212) 280-5517 (work);  (212) 829-5363 (home)
shenkin at cubsun.bio.columbia.edu    shenkin%cubsun.bio.columbia.edu at cuvma.BITNET