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In house of blacksmith, wood knife?
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En casa de herrero, cuchillo de palo
In house of blacksmith, wood knife?
Sun Crossbow USB = a surprisingly good ball mouse.
While I got out of the game a long time ago, I used to be pretty big into playing around with and/or restoring old Unix workstations, particularly SGIs. Going from memory, my random retrocomputing walk brought into my life:
SGI:
- Indigo: Many of them (6+), R3k through R4.4k, and incorporated almost every option board available, including the Chyron Centaur and Galileo Video (this was a fabulously fun hobby computer, and even I built a web site about SGI Indigo fun facts which has been up for over a decade and still gets a fair amount of traffic today)
- Indy, R5k Webforce (first a home development box for prototyping a project with some friends, then a long-standing web server)
- Challenge S, R4600 Webforce (my home firewall for many, many years)
- Power Series 4D/310 VGX (33MHz R3k) (project computer, went nowhere)
- Onyx, 2xR4400 RE (I had four of these that I procured from Boeing Surplus, for the sake of restoring them and selling them back to the SGI hobbyist community; the project had mixed results, but was very memorable)
While I got out of the game a long time ago, I used to be pretty big into playing around with and/or restoring old Unix workstations, particularly SGIs. Going from memory, my random retrocomputing walk brought into my life:
No, it's an air compressor.
I have one, and air tools are the cat's meow. Unbelievable torque and super quality if you get good stuff.
Now see, I was thinking of this -
It's a fire extinguishing unit in my college's HPC centre. The picture is taken at a weird angle, which makes it and myself look smaller than they really are, but bare in mind that I'm about 6.2' - 6.3' tall, and that should give you an idea of how big it was.
Yeah well you're looking very pale there matey, get some sun!
What sun? I didn't the sun for the whole four years I lived in the UK.
SparcBook- cool!
The Indigo has the BEST setup documentation in the history of Mankind. You open up the box, and there's a poster, no words, with a clearly defined pictorial setup. I've aspired to write such a perfect doc ever since I opened up an Indigo the first time.
No, it's an air compressor.
I have one, and air tools are the cat's meow. Unbelievable torque and super quality if you get good stuff.
Speaking of the Onyx, I'm sort of trying to get rid of two Onyx racks at the moment... Which is sort of proving harder than it really should be. Unfortunately, it seems few SGI enthusiasts around here really have the space required anymore...
I'll be using his plasma cutter on Wednesday for a keyboard project
Nice stuff. I've become quite interested in SGI stuff myself recently (seems to be a pretty trendy thing to do amongst UNIX nerds).
Google trends.
(Then again, the name SGI is still being used for modern, non-retrocomputing market hardware.)
Alas. It's like watching a friend die of TB.
I didn't say that SGI was still around, for a reason.I've got a few I don't use if you want one
I've never gotten into SGI stuff, but maybe I should play with some of it some time...
thanks a TON for the Indigo poster pics. I've never gone looking for online pics, now I don't have to.
Actually ... I think I still have this kicking around someplace if you want it. You'd pay for shipping only, assuming I can dig it up. I can't vouch for it's working condition, however, although I can probably test it, and you'll need to reinstall the OS or otherwise hack root.
Has anyone used a Fuel? I was thinking of getting a second SGI at some point, and the Fuel seems to be the best value for money option.