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Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://udongein.xyz/users/lispi314" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lispi314</a> Yeah...Cuz those RAID controllers are basically SBCs themselves if not entire PCs with socketed ECC-RAM to provide transparent, fast access.<ul><li>The most extreme I've seen was <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a>'s Hardware-Rate for "Guaranteed-Rate I/O" in <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/XFS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#XFS</a> on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IRIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IRIX</a> (using custom hardware and extremely expensive 15.000rpm SCSI HDDs that screamed a like a split hornets' nest)...</li></ul>

David Cantrell 🏏<a href="https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@jalefkowit</a> I once had a plumber come round who was inappropriately impressed by the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> box on my desk. It was only an <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Indy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Indy</a>. He should have instead been impressed by the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/VAXstation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#VAXstation</a> it was sitting on top of.

Trouble<a href="https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@lauren</a> <a href="https://mathstodon.xyz/@PeterLudemann" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@PeterLudemann</a> <a href="https://sfba.social/@not2b" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@not2b</a> I used to joke about how without fail every other generation (Challenge-Origin server and Indigo-O2 desktop era) of Silicon Graphics machines - the power supplies would either just die (no blinking lights) or catch on fire (literal flames shooting out). <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://masto.ai/tags/silicongraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#silicongraphics</a> A smart software engineer whose deskside machine caught on fire in his office calmly rolled it outside, removed the disks to save their work, THEN used an extinguisher on it.

Gorgeous na Shock!So now I'm an <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IRIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IRIX</a> freak.I got X forwarding working with questionable local firewall rules (restricted to the retro network!) and telnet. 😌Waiting for the good terminator to arrive and then I'll put it up in the corner with the rest of the retro computers.

Michael EngelRetro computing Lab at the BIT - Bamberger Informatik-Tag today…<a href="https://www.uni-bamberg.de/bit/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.uni-bamberg.de/bit/</a><a href="https://sueden.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/next" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#next</a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/mac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mac</a>

💀 𝓕airchild 💀The Crimson ITX PC case printed and painted. (it's just dry-fitted, hence the small gap in the top) I discovered a flaw in the mobo sled guides but not until I was putting them in. le sigh Fixable, but annoying that I missed it.<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/3Dmodeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3Dmodeling</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a>

💀 𝓕airchild 💀So while I'm at it... why not? Iris Indigo ITX PC case (work in progess). It has room for a full ATX PSU. PS - The Crimson is done. Just letting the paint dry (Tamiya metallic red). <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/3Dmodeling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#3Dmodeling</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a>

Maxi 11x 💉Woah, oben in der <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ZKM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ZKM</a>-Ausstellung haben sie eine funktionstüchtige SGI O2 mit <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Irix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Irix</a>! :OLaut Schild "voraussichtlich zum letzten Mal", dass die Installation auf der originalen Hardware läuft.<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/GPN23" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPN23</a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a>

💀 𝓕airchild 💀It also aims straight ahead. (It's kind of washed out because of the VGA to HDMI) Also I totally forgot about webface. 😄<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/O2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#O2</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/IRIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IRIX</a>

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Such a cute little moosehead. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/O2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#O2</a>

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Optical drive and skins swapped. It works. But I haven't reset the root password yet. Also when IRIX comes up it sets the resolution to something my VGA->HDMI adapter at my desk doesn't wanna deal with, so I need to drag out the VGA monitor I was using before to get all that sorted. Can't wait to see what s/w is on this former gubmint computer. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/O2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#O2</a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/IRIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IRIX</a>

Karl BaronI figured it couldn’t hurt to drop in to HARD OFF on my walk back from the mall.Wandering through the Junk PC aisle, a double-take, what is that teal beauty on the bottom shelf?A SiliconGraphics O2? In MY rural Japanese city? How did that get here? The tag showed it had been there for over a week. At $60 I had to give it a home!Lugging it home in the 31+C heat, squeezing in on the tram and dashing through the rain was a slog but it made it home!<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/silicongraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#silicongraphics</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/mb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mb</a>

Karl BaronUmmm… WTF???(this one is getting its own thread once I get it home and take a closer look)<a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/HARDOFF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#HARDOFF</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/thrifting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#thrifting</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/silicongraphics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#silicongraphics</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/o2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#o2</a> <a href="https://bitbang.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RetroComputing</a>

Kevin Karhan :verified:<a href="https://mas.to/@DenOfEarth" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@DenOfEarth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@ytc1" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ytc1</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@aka_pugs" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@aka_pugs</a> well <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/WindowsNT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WindowsNT</a> owned the workstation market because <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Vendors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Vendors</a> like <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sun</a> failed to innovate...<ul><li>Abeit sgi hals self-inflicted that by removing the reasons to buy their stuff when they switched to <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Itanium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Itanium</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/CPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CPU</a>|s and <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/nvidia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#nvidia</a> <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/GPU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GPU</a>|s and not developing <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IRIX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IRIX</a> any further! </li></ul><a href="https://infosec.space/tags/SunMicrosystems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SunMicrosystems</a> at least didn't stall in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Software</a>, but once <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Oracle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Oracle</a> acqured them and started shaking down Sun Technology users for "<a href="https://infosec.space/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IP</a> infringement" and "License Violations" they basically made using anythibg but <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Linux</a> a bad choice on <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Servers</a>!<ul><li>Meanwhile <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Apple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Apple</a> to this day doesn't even halfass <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Servers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Servers</a> anymore and is constantly giving customers and espechally professionals the middle finger in terms of <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Repairability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Repairability</a> & <a href="https://infosec.space/tags/Maintainability" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Maintainability</a>!</li></ul>

💀 𝓕airchild 💀And... <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> all fail, all day. 1 - The NOS hard drive won't partition. It got the usual stiction whacks, its controller is alive, but it just sits like a brick and gets hot. 2 - My original drive is also bad, which is probably why it wouldn't boot before, not because of the install. It's got sooooo many bad sectors. So many. I had tried rescuing it earlier today and this explains why there were just missing bits all over (like the kernel). 3 - I realized the 50-to-80 pin adapter I have is the wrong business end, so I can't use the ZuluSCSI in the O2 (I can use one in the Indy, so I guess I'll probably be reviving the Indy soon while I wait for...)So. Here I am having wasted the day trying to make something work. I just ordered a SCSIknife SCA which is essentially a ZuluSCSI with an 80-pin connector.On the plus side, I know how to boot from CD from the command monitor by heart now. boot -f dksc(0,4,8)sashARCS dksc(0,4,7)stand/fx.ARCS --x

💀 𝓕airchild 💀Man! After dinking around with this drive, it is working and has all my old shiz on it. But it won't boot on this machine, possibly because it was built on an R10K machine. So I'm going to set this drive aside and use a blank one. <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SGI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SGI</a> O2

Michael EngelFun at VCFe in Munich! <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://sueden.social/tags/sun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sun</a>

R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<a href="https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@slembcke" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@slembcke</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/@geerlingguy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@geerlingguy</a>Yeah, that's terrifying. 😄I'm suddenly reminded of the [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavarand" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">lava lamp</a>] attachment/concept for the <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> workstations (IIRC) that provided a robust PRNG seed.Maybe now someone will sell a little sealed box that consists of an LCD screen, a webcam, and some film with Vaseline applied to provide non-computationally-reversible blur effects. XD

Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪Thank you Ms.Postman 😀 - finally get back to playing with IRIX's DATman<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/dat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dat</a>

Retro Markus 🇩🇰🇩🇪Finally was able to find a SGI Indy :) - one missing link in my Unix-Pizza Collection :). Anyone got an official grey SGI mouse to let?<a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#retrocomputing</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/pizza" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pizza</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/sgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#sgi</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/indy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#indy</a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/irix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#irix</a>

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