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I had an internship at an IBM reseller and consultancy couple years back. When we were at a client’s after finishing a project, they showed me their basement fu
by cygned 6y ago
I had an internship at an IBM reseller and consultancy couple years back. When we were at a client’s after finishing a project, they showed me their basement full of decommissioned computers and they let me take one home for free. I picked an SGI Indigo2, purple version, running IRIX. I had no idea what to do with it, so I played around for a couple of months and then made the mistake of throwing it away. (That still bugs me). I still love the interface and the way things were organized in the system, the file manager in particular. It ran nedit as editor and I used that on Linux for a couple of years going on. Nostalgia...
edit: Remembering, I got the machine with original SGI keyboard, mouse and screen.
- bluedino 6y agoI had a purple one and a green one! I’d play Doom (which didn’t use the 3D hardware), played around with a few of the OpenGL demos, barely surged the internet with the ancient version of Netscape, then didn’t do much else because I didn’t have the CD’s that came with it or the knowledge to try and build anything else.
- exikyut 6y agoDo you maybe have any viable excuses to say hello to that particular client again?