20 Apr
2016
20 Apr
'16
7:54 a.m.
On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jules Richardson wrote:
Ditto. I do like mine. Extra TRAM option, 384MB of
RAM, 2x4GB disks. It
gets a little toasty (but it's got the feet for standing it up on its
side, and I think that helps a little with the heat dissipation - plus it
looks a lot nicer! :-)
I hope you have the deskside stand for it. That made them look a bit
cooler. Hmm. It's the kind of thing that could probably be 3D printed
these days, too.
While I'm rambling about 3D printing, I've often speculated that with a
not-insignificant investment of time, one could built new skins for the Indy
on some larger 3D printers.
I'm not sure if there was a 'correct'
display/keyboard/rodent setup on
those machines? Mine came with a white keyboard and mouse but granite
display, and I assume that they should really all be matched.
Granite in most cases. The Indigo2 had a longer run than many SGI models.
Plus, since there was also a lot of differentiation in models (everything
from XL24 graphics to Maximum IMPACT graphics, too),
there might have been
more than one. I remember seeing a few show up brand-new
(deep-purple Max
Impact models) and they came with 21" Trinitron SGI re-branded monitors with
granite PS/2 keyboard and a granite PS/2 mouse.
Maya would be nice (and if I remember right
there's evidence that it was
originally accessible from that machine, but via a long-gone network
drive), but I assume that period versions are difficult to get hold of.
Difficult, but not impossible. Maya 6.5 was the last version made for the
SGI. You can buy media on Ebay. I note that the last auction (for a set of
6.0 disks) was in Feb 2016. So, it seems possible. However, I got mine
from purchasing an O2 with Maya 4.x on it. Just about
any interesting
commercial app/tool is going to have flexlm copy protection, hence
the large
amount of Irix warez & cracks you'll notice on p2p networks like eMule.
-Swift