12 May
2016
12 May
'16
9:54 a.m.
I know this is a long shot, but these have been on my list for a while.
I am located in Seattle but am not opposed to arranging freight or local
pick-up.
Would like to purchase but would also consider trades.
Thanks,
- Ian
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Ian Finder
(206) 395-MIPS
ian.finder at gmail.com
12 May
12 May
10:13 a.m.
I know this is a long shot, but these have been on my
list for a while.
I am located in Seattle but am not opposed to arranging freight or local
pick-up.
Would like to purchase but would also consider trades.
Thanks,
- Ian
Years ago I gave away my 4d/480VGX... and I think the guy asked if I
wanted it back. Do you want me to find his contact info? It's a larger
box, Challenge XL sized. Brown with 8 LED bar graphs for CPU load of the
eight R3000 processors.
My second SGI. *swoon*
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Ethan O'Toole
10:50 a.m.
On Thu, 12 May 2016, ethan at 757.org wrote:
Brown with 8 LED bar graphs for CPU load of the eight
R3000 processors.
Ah.... a sweet machine. That was the machine that I believe "woke up" SGI
to really take IRIX and their industrial design to the next level. My all
time favorite machine is still the Indigo (1). Something about the
espresso machine shape and seeing one decked out with a DAT etc.. very
cool. I just wish it didn't have a *cussword* proprietary keyboard and
mouse.
-Swift
1:49 p.m.
Man, I'd LOVE to have one of those. Sadly, I think I don't have the space.
I'll have to stick to desk-side-ish machines. There is already an XL SGI
(Terminator ONYX) in the garage. :(
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 10:50 AM, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com>
wrote:
On Thu, 12 May 2016, ethan at 757.org wrote:
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Ian Finder
(206) 395-MIPS
ian.finder at gmail.com
Brown with 8 LED bar graphs for CPU load of the
eight R3000 processors.
Ah.... a sweet machine. That was the machine that I believe "woke up" SGI
to really take IRIX and their industrial design to the next level. My all
time favorite machine is still the Indigo (1). Something about the
espresso machine shape and seeing one decked out with a DAT etc.. very
cool. I just wish it didn't have a *cussword* proprietary keyboard and
mouse.
-Swift
2:38 p.m.
Man, I'd LOVE to have one of those. Sadly, I think
I don't have the space.
I'll have to stick to desk-side-ish machines. There is already an XL SGI
(Terminator ONYX) in the garage. :(
Onyx and Challenge XL are better.
16 or 32 little cpu bars on the LCD. So cool.
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Ethan O'Toole
10:49 a.m.
If anyone on the european side of things has a twin tower I would be all
over it. 12 slots preffered but beggars can't be choosers. A rebranded
system such as Prime would do too.
While I'm dreaming, I've been looking for an SGI Espressigo for a while.
It's the only retro machine my wife has agreed to letting me keep in the
house :)
/P
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 09:54:06AM -0700, Ian Finder wrote:
I know this is a long shot, but these have been on my
list for a while.
I am located in Seattle but am not opposed to arranging freight or local
pick-up.
Would like to purchase but would also consider trades.
Thanks,
- Ian
--
Ian Finder
(206) 395-MIPS
ian.finder at gmail.com
16 May
16 May
1:01 a.m.
Ian, could you reply with a link to what you refer to as IRIS 68k hardware?
This catches my attention, and I just want to make certain that this isn't
related to what I've been working on.
Maybe it's just a coincidence, because I've been restoring an IRIS OS (from
Point 4), and independently, the Convergent Technologies Mightyframe, which
is a 68k system. The 2 are not related, but when you mention them
together, I'm really really curious what you mean.
Thanks!
-AJ
On Thu, May 12, 2016 at 11:54 AM, Ian Finder <ian.finder at gmail.com> wrote:
I know this is a long shot, but these have been on my
list for a while.
I am located in Seattle but am not opposed to arranging freight or local
pick-up.
Would like to purchase but would also consider trades.
Thanks,
- Ian
--
Ian Finder
(206) 395-MIPS
ian.finder at gmail.com
--
Thanks,
-AJ
http://MicrotechM1.blogspot.com
2:26 a.m.
On Mon, May 16, 2016 at 03:01:19AM -0500, Microtech Dart wrote:
Ian, could you reply with a link to what you refer to
as IRIS 68k hardware?
I think this is unfortunately just a name clash. SGI's first generations
of machines was called "IRIS" and ran an operating system called
"GL2-WX.Y" where X.Y is a version number. GL-W2 is a System III unix
port. The graphics subsystem was called "IRIS Graphics"
Start reading here for mor info:
http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/index.html
This catches my attention, and I just want to make
certain that this isn't
related to what I've been working on.
I'm quite certain it isn't. But I'd be happy to be proven wrong, maybe
Convergent rebranded SGI's machines. It is not unheard of:
http://hardware.majix.org/computers/sgi.iris/iris3130.shtml
Maybe it's just a coincidence, because I've
been restoring an IRIS OS (from
Point 4), and independently, the Convergent Technologies Mightyframe, which
is a 68k system. The 2 are not related, but when you mention them
together, I'm really really curious what you mean.
Thanks!
-AJ
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