SGI....

On Wednesday 09 November 2005 07:46, John Allain wrote: The Computer History Museum purchased the building directly from SGI. See: http://www.computerhistory.org/bldg/ Some of us here in Silicon Valley have been collecting and preserving SGI boxes and software for a very long time. I have at least one of every system that SGI produced from the "lowly" PI to the "mainframe" Onyx Infinite Reality with Sirius Video - and much additional optional hardware and its associated software. AFAIK, I have a copy of just about all of the software that they SGI produced from IRIX to specialized graphics software for specialized hardware and networking. The largest repository of SGI documentation outside of SGI itself is: http://futuretech.blinkenlights.nl/sgi.html This site is owned by Ian Mapleson. Ian and I have known each other for years - and I have offered - and Ian has agreed that I will be hosting the U.S. mirror of his site (which is in the process of being setup as I write). So, yes, many of us who know SGI well have been proactive for years in preserving everything SGI we can get our hands on. Cheers, Lyle -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA http://bickleywest.com "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"