pixel, to retrocomputing
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davefischer, to retrocomputing
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Salome, helping me photograph some workstations last night. #Caturday #SGI #RetroComputing

root42, to retrocomputing
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Don’t talk to me or my children ever again!
#retrocomputing #sgi

Ede, to retrocomputing German
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Man beachte das liebliche Pfeifen einer LVDS SCSI Platte beim Start #SGI #O2.
Welcher Rechner kann heute schon von sich behaupten, solch ein Feedback zu geben?
#retrocomputing #retrocomputer

video/mp4

davefischer, to retrocomputing
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That seems like the proper number of Octanes.

pixel, to history
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thias, to VintageOSes
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This evening, I added support for the SGI image format embedded inside QuickTime containers to my QuickDraw viewer. Turns out SGI images have a 512 byte headers which QuickTime strips, as the data is redundant with what is stored by QuickTime. So before rendering, the full SGI file needs to be reconstructed.

https://github.com/wiesmann/QuickDrawViewer

#quickdraw #quicktime #classicmac #imageprocessing #sgi

Ede, to random German
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Heyho Fedi,
ich suche jemanden, der sich mit #SGI auskennt. Ich habe eine #Indigo2 und eine #O2. Habe etwas Sorge, wenn ich die an den Strom stecke, dass diese mir sterben. Also die Netzteile und bräuchte da etwas Support. Kann mir jemand weiterhelfen?

jacobydave, to random

In a nostalgic mood, so I'm curious how people in other computing environments pronounced HP/UX.

mjgardner,
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@jacobydave I pronounce HP-UX as “aitch-pukes.”

In the late 1990s, after running #Merck’s public web sites for several years on their Research Labs’ favored MIPS-based #SGI #IRIX machines, I had to help transition that responsibility to corporate IT and their favored #HP PA-RISC #HPUX servers.

Along the way I had to explain that no, #Apache httpd was not “shareware.”

mjgardner, (edited ) to webdev
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@Perl After reading https://doi.org/10.1145/3386327, I’m imagining an alternate #WebDev history where #Netscape hired #LarryWall instead of @BrendanEich. (The latter previously worked for co-founder Jim Clark at #SGI, so as always it’s who you know.)

No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.

NanoRaptor, to random
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Ahhhh. The blues don't precisely match, but work well together.

mjgardner,
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@foo @NanoRaptor Can verify. http://www.merck.com ran on an #SGI Challenge S from 1995 to 1998. For the first year I updated it by dumping files to tape from the Indy on my desk and then walking the tape down to the server room to untar them via an attached #DEC VT320 serial terminal, because IT didn’t trust the web server to be connected to anything but its own T1 line.

Eventually I came across Tatu Ylönen’s #SSH and convinced IT to let me scp files.

mjgardner,
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@memory @foo @NanoRaptor Did #BBN have any customers who wanted to host their own web site on #SGI gear? Because that might explain the situation when @ajstarks hired me in 1995 to be webmaster@merck.com and I arrived to find an Indy on my desk and a Challenge S in the server room hooked up to a BBN-provisioned T1 line.

gfkdsgn, to AdobePhotoshop German
@gfkdsgn@burma.social avatar

The Indy was SGI's entry-level 3D workstation for CAD and 3D animations in 1993. This beautiful computer was actually the first shipped with a webcam and had video I/O ports built-in.
Since 2023 isn't over yet, there are a few days left to celebrate IT's 30th Anniversary and to realize that @Blender was developed on one of them.

Made with @inkscape not #Adobe #Illustrator or #Serif #AffinityDesigner. #vintage #computergraphics #3D #openGL #cgi #SiliconGraphics #SGI #Indy #IndyCam #IRIX #Unix #FOSS #FediArt #svg @art

gfkdsgn, to blender German
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The Indy was #SGI's dedicated #CAD and #3D Computer 1993. We can celebrate #IT's 40th Anniversary #2023 with our #vector @art #illustration and tribute #cgi made with @inkscape not #Adobe #Illustrator. #computergraphics #openGL

muzej, to Slovenia
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🟪🟩 Silicon Graphics - SGI once reigned supreme in the realm of the most powerful graphics workstations and servers.

💸 In the museum, we preserve many of these systems, which when new could cost more than $10,000 and even $100,000, along with some of their high-end monitors and peripherals:

5x Indigo2
2x Iris Indigo
2x Indy
1x Personal Iris
1x Octane2
1x Octane
3x 19" + 1x 17" CRT

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #SiliconGraphics #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

mjgardner,
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@muzej Had a lowest of the low-end Indys waiting on my desk when I arrived as webmaster at a Fortune 100 company in 1995. Apparently it was bundled with the #SGI Challenge S (rebadged Indy stripped of graphics hardware) as a “#SiliconGraphics WebFORCE” package, along with #Netscape server and browser software.

Silicon Graphics WebFORCE magazine advertisement
Silicon Graphics WebFORCE magazine advertisement

muzej, to Slovenia
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🦖🌪️ Silicon Graphics graphic workstations were once synonymous with high performance - they even appeared in movies like Jurassic Park, Twister, and Congo. In the museum, we have a lot of interesting peripherals for them, including several SGI IndyCam cameras.

#computermuseum #computerhistory #slovenia #ljubljana #nostalgia #sgi #SiliconGraphics #retrocomputing #vintage #vintagecomputer #vintagecomputing

davefischer, to retrocomputing
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Playing around with IRIX in preparation for an SGI work day at the museum this weekend.

Netscape (4.78) runs, but won't display our web site because of HTTPS. Luckily it displays a local copy running plain HTTP fine.

#RetroComputing #SGI #Netscape

Adorable_Sergal, to linux
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Desktop show-off time!

#linux #kde #desktop #irix #sgi

metaphil, to til
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💡 that, aside from fancy and workstations and servers, legendary manufacturer also sold an ​maker for ca. 190 DM in Germany.

(Image: CC0 Wikimedia Commons, Wolfgang Stief)

j, to VintageComputing
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I love this brittle beast I found on Ebay and impulsively bid on. The seller hand-delivered it within a day or two! I'm grateful for that because I doubt it would have survived shipping... the aged plastic case is extremely brittle and delicate. I've already broken (and repaired) two clips (one clip immediately broke again!).

This is a Unix system! I know this!

#VintageComputing #SGI #sgiO2 #siliconGraphics

A blue SiliconGraphics O2 workstation from the late 90s, displaying a Unix terminal on an attached LCD screen
A blue SiliconGraphics O2 workstation from the late 90s, displaying a desktop environment and several applications on an attached LCD screen

SinclairSpeccy, to tech

Haven’t done any random hardware posts lately so have this SGI Indy pizza box

kkarhan, to random
kkarhan, to random
jbzfn, to VintageOSes
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:perfect: Meet the SGI Octane - A 3D Graphics Powerhouse from 1997
➥ RMC - The Cave

#SGI #SGIOctane #Irix #Retrocomputing
https://youtube.com/watch?v=VHsA8iq4N0s&si=XxxNkefNb6tNL8aH

SinclairSpeccy, to VintageOSes

SGI gang where are you at cause this image gives me gang vibes because of the way the lighting and computers are positioned

#SGI #IRIX #Oynx #SiliconGraphics #Tech #RetroTech #90s

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