@lauren @PeterLudemann @not2b I used to joke about how without fail every other generation (Challenge-Origin server and Indigo-O2 desktop era) of Silicon Graphics machines - the power supplies would either just die (no blinking lights) or catch on fire (literal flames shooting out). #sgi #silicongraphics A smart software engineer whose deskside machine caught on fire in his office calmly rolled it outside, removed the disks to save their work, THEN used an extinguisher on it.
Indigo Magic Desktop
»The Indigo Magic Desktop was the default desktop environment for #IRIX, #SGI’s variant of UNIX. The product’s focus was on making an otherwise cumbersome operating system easier for novices while increasing the productivity of experienced users. The Indigo Magic Desktop was one of the very first comprehensive desktop environments to be deployed on UNIX.«
Bringing the good word of SGI to a Wisconsin Computer Club open house. #SGI
Retro computing Lab at the BIT - Bamberger Informatik-Tag today…
After years of isolation while caring for his wife, Rose, Philippe Crettien reached out to the SGI community he had left 30 years prior.
#Portrait for @WorldTribune #SGI
https://www.daviddegner.com/photography/portrait-of-philippe-crettien-for-living-buddhism/
Ich finde ja faszinierend, dass man in der Designsprache von #SGIs Produkten ’96 (da kam die O2 auf den Markt, die Octane ’97) schon Jony Ives iMac-Formsprache von ’98 fühlen konnte.
Moment mal, wurde Steve Jobs nicht erst ’97 iCEO und hat Ives Designideen dann erst vorantreiben lassen? Lässt sich da gar eine direkte Inspirationslinie von SGI-Produkten zum Design der zweiten Jobs-Ära feststellen?
The Crimson ITX PC case printed and painted. (it's just dry-fitted, hence the small gap in the top) I discovered a flaw in the mobo sled guides but not until I was putting them in. le sigh
Fixable, but annoying that I missed it.
So while I'm at it... why not? Iris Indigo ITX PC case (work in progess). It has room for a full ATX PSU.
PS - The Crimson is done. Just letting the paint dry (Tamiya metallic red). #3Dmodeling #sgi
It also aims straight ahead.
(It's kind of washed out because of the VGA to HDMI)
Also I totally forgot about webface. 
Optical drive and skins swapped. It works. But I haven't reset the root password yet. Also when IRIX comes up it sets the resolution to something my VGA->HDMI adapter at my desk doesn't wanna deal with, so I need to drag out the VGA monitor I was using before to get all that sorted. Can't wait to see what s/w is on this former gubmint computer.
#SGI #O2 #IRIX
I figured it couldn’t hurt to drop in to HARD OFF on my walk back from the mall.
Wandering through the Junk PC aisle, a double-take, what is that teal beauty on the bottom shelf?
A SiliconGraphics O2? In MY rural Japanese city? How did that get here? The tag showed it had been there for over a week. At $60 I had to give it a home!
Lugging it home in the 31+C heat, squeezing in on the tram and dashing through the rain was a slog but it made it home!
Ummm… WTF???
(this one is getting its own thread once I get it home and take a closer look)
@DenOfEarth @ytc1 @aka_pugs well #WindowsNT owned the workstation market because #Vendors like #SGI & #Sun failed to innovate...
#SunMicrosystems at least didn't stall in terms of #Software, but once #Oracle acqured them and started shaking down Sun Technology users for "#IP infringement" and "License Violations" they basically made using anythibg but #Linux a bad choice on #Servers!
And... #SGI all fail, all day.
1 - The NOS hard drive won't partition. It got the usual stiction whacks, its controller is alive, but it just sits like a brick and gets hot.
2 - My original drive is also bad, which is probably why it wouldn't boot before, not because of the install. It's got sooooo many bad sectors. So many. I had tried rescuing it earlier today and this explains why there were just missing bits all over (like the kernel).
3 - I realized the 50-to-80 pin adapter I have is the wrong business end, so I can't use the ZuluSCSI in the O2 (I can use one in the Indy, so I guess I'll probably be reviving the Indy soon while I wait for...)
So. Here I am having wasted the day trying to make something work. I just ordered a SCSIknife SCA which is essentially a ZuluSCSI with an 80-pin connector.
On the plus side, I know how to boot from CD from the command monitor by heart now.
boot -f dksc(0,4,8)sashARCS dksc(0,4,7)stand/fx.ARCS --x
Man! After dinking around with this drive, it is working and has all my old shiz on it. But it won't boot on this machine, possibly because it was built on an R10K machine. So I'm going to set this drive aside and use a blank one. #SGI O2
Preparations for our RetroLab next month in Bamberg at the BIT (Bamberger Informatiktag)…
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