28 Feb
2009
28 Feb
'09
9:40 a.m.
Just scored a couple SGI 4D/220s from a government
auction site.
Anyone have any familiarity with these? Anything I should look out
for besides what's
Crappy auction pics:
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/images/4D-220-1.jpg>
<http://www.xmission.com/~legalize/vintage/images/4D-220-2.jpg>
So you bought those twin tower systems. We were all crying over them. Those are Twin Tower
4D systems as you can already see and they are not the most powerful things out there as
they are pretty old. They should be able to run Irix 4.0.5 but that is it and I don't
know much about Irix software older than version 5.3 so you better hope that there are
some GL demos installed. In all honesty I recommend you go talk to the folks over at
http://www.nekochan.net as they are the last people on the net really to tame these old
beasts. I also recommend http://www.martnet.com/~bobd/sgi/4dfaq.html as it contains a nice
FAQ and tells you how to make a serial terminal cable adapter which is essential for any
SGI system.
John.
28 Feb
28 Feb
9:52 a.m.
In article <49A97726.70903 at gmail.com>,
John Ball <ball.of.john at gmail.com> writes:
So you bought those twin tower systems. We were all
crying over them.
Who's "we"? :-) There was one other bidder that appears to have maxed
out at $100, so I got them for $105 ea. On ebay these things would
have gone for considerably more I'm guessing.
Those are Twin Tower 4D systems as you can already see
and they are
not the most powerful things out there as they are pretty old.
Yeah, but they are a nice addition to my SGI collection; I didn't have
any of the Power Series 4D machines, although I do have a Crimson and
a couple Onyx machines.
They should be able to run Irix 4.0.5 but that is it
and I don't know
much about Irix software older than version 5.3 so you better hope that
there are some GL demos installed.
Yeah, these things predate OpenGL, so I imagine that only Iris GL
programs will run on them. Fortunately I have the expertise to write
such programs to be able to make some cool demos :-). It would be
nice to get ahold of an Iris GL doc set though. I'm guessing that the
man pages are probably installed. sgistuff says that IRIX 5.3
supports a 4D/220.
<http://sgistuff.g-lenerz.de/mirrors/4dfaq/index.html#pwrconfperf>
In all honesty I recommend you go talk to the folks
over at
http://www.nekochan.net as they are the last people on the net really
to tame these old beasts. I also recommend
http://www.martnet.com/~bobd/sgi/4dfaq.html as it contains a nice FAQ
and tells you how to make a serial terminal cable adapter which is
essential for any SGI system.
Yep, I've been on nekochan before (although I prefer mailing lists
over web forums, since mailing lists are push instead of a web forum
pull). Looks like the 4D FAQ page is the one I've been seeing on
sgistuff.
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