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The maintenance screen. No system but it works.

Mozilla running on a SiliconGraphics machine running IRIX 6.5. #mozilla #browser #silicongraphics Courtesy of @kenichikun

 

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ceepdx: I haven't seen irix in a long time

 

veganstraightedge: An SGI workstation + IRIX + Mosaic was how I first saw the web.

 

obensource: Man, #IRIX. So rad!

 

caseorganic: @veganstraightedge @kenichikun set one up in the office! We played with it this morning.

  

Silicon Graphics

Computerhersteller

Silicon Graphics International war ein Hersteller von Computern, die besonders auf dem Gebiet der grafischen Darstellung leistungsstark sind. SGI initiierte die OpenGL-Spezifikation und ist Mitglied des Architecture Review Board von OpenGL. Wikipedia

Hauptsitz: Fremont, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten

Gegründet: 1982, Kalifornien, Vereinigte Staaten

Schliessung: Mai 2009

Gründer: Charles Kuta, James H. Clark

It's from a 1998 Silicon Graphics patent that proposes using a lava lamp as a source of chaotic behaviour for a random number generator. And this now actually exists - at Cloudflare...

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

A Bondi Blue Apple keyboard, a "puck" mouse, and a can of Dr Pepper on my desk at my parents' house in Decatur, IL.

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Detail of the Iris Indigo (Silicon Graphics), a powerful computer introduced in 1991. This board has as nickname 'The Song and Dance Machine'.

More info at www.sgizone.net/indigo/

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

I had a bunch of trade showbuttons and swag shoved in my Macintosh 512 travel bag. Here is a sample. I like "Microsoft Word Sweeps the Nation!"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Two Solid Impact graphics boards. The Indigo2 has four GIO64 slots. However, the slots are arranged in two sets of two. Only one Impact graphics board may be installed in each set, which limits the Indigo2 to a total of two graphics boards.

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Here is a collection of crap in my old old apartment in Kingston. Do take the time to notice my first UNIX box - good old SGI (R.I.P.) Irix. Cut my Unix teeth on this baby.

 

(1) Make.

(2) Install.

(3) Profit?

 

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SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

With special guest on the webcam.

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

In style with Silicon Graphics' earlier WebFORCE badging, I added a last.fm badge (which I got from Roel last friday, thanks!) to my audioscrobblin' Indy.

Please don't do that. -> Shutdown, disassemble reseat everything, pray..

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

SGI 4D320 VGX "Twin Tower"

Now that's a graphics card!... or make that four PCBs (with optional compressorboard). It'll run Quake1 quite happily :D

 

Indigo2 Extreme graphics subsystem

In style with Silicon Graphics' earlier WebFORCE badging, I added a last.fm badge (which I got from Roel last friday, thanks!) to my audioscrobblin' Indy.

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