4 ms·

I still boot up my maximum-spec Octane2 (2x600MHz R14k, 8GB RAM, VPro V12, PCI shoebox) every so often to bask in the good ol’ days. After nekochan went offlin

I still boot up my maximum-spec Octane2 (2x600MHz R14k, 8GB RAM, VPro V12, PCI shoebox) every so often to bask in the good ol’ days. After nekochan went offline, there isn’t really a central gathering place for SGI fans anymore, but we are out there.

im_down_w_otp 5y ago
That's a beast of a machine! In my home office I have a little mini museum that consists of display of esoteric 90's workstations: * Apple Quadra 610 running A/UX (Apple's first UNIX) * NeXT NeXTstation Turbo * SGI Indigo2 IMPACT10000 * Sun Ultra 2 Elite3D * UMAX J700 (dual 604e) running BeOS * HP Visualize C240 All working and all fun to fire up and play around with from time to time. Tracking down software to play with is a challenge at times. Since most of what I want to fiddle around with is proprietary and long since abandoned (Maya, CATIA, NX, etc.). If by some chance we were to end up on a conference call, you'd see them displayed in the background. :-)
- em-bee 5y ago
  neat, here is my museum: * Apollo Domain 4500 * HP 9000 * m86k/25 NeXTstation * NeXTstation Turbo * NeXT Cube with NeXTDimension card * SPARCstation 5 * SGI OEM machine from Control-Data with mips R2000A/R3000 * SGI Indy * IBM RS6000/320H * IBM RS6000/250 * Cobalt Qube 2700D * Sun JavaStation1 * Sun Ray1 * SPARC IPC * Alpha-Entry-Workstation 533 they are in storage at my grandmothers now, and i don't know if any of them still run. some of these i was using actively as my workstation at home. some where just to explore. as i got more and more into free software, dealing with the nonfree stuff on those machines got less and less appealing. though i was also running linux on machines that were supported.
  - NexRebular 5y ago
    My museum is quite small in comparison: * HP 9000 712/60 * SUN Ultra 1 Creator (With SunPC DX2) * Mac Quadra 610 These are still working, albeit waiting for recapping. The Gecko is running NextSTEP for the original id Software DooM map editor and the Ultra and Quadra are on the original OS they came with. Would love to get more SUN and SGI hardware but the prices are getting quite out of hand...
classichasclass 5y ago
My 900MHz V12 DCD Fuel says hi. I miss Nekochan.
- anthk 5y ago
  https://forums.sgi.sh/ https://forums.sgi.sh/
- bitbckt 5y ago
  Forgot to add the DCD. :)
justinlloyd 5y ago
Sounds like it will run circles around my Indigo2 R10K in the workshop. What do you do with all that power?
anthk 5y ago
https://forums.sgi.sh/ https://forums.sgi.sh/
sleepybrett 5y ago
Sometimes I miss 3dwm though apple stole a lot of it's best ideas and put them into the original osx
- jacquesm 5y ago
  There were some attempts at getting 3dwm to be ported to Linux, but I'm not sure what came of them.
jacquesm 5y ago
That's like driving a classic in modern day traffic, it's a bit slower but it does the job with elegance. Nice rig!

im_down_w_otp 5y ago

That's a beast of a machine! In my home office I have a little mini museum that consists of display of esoteric 90's workstations: * Apple Quadra 610 running A/UX (Apple's first UNIX) * NeXT NeXTstation Turbo * SGI Indigo2 IMPACT10000 * Sun Ultra 2 Elite3D * UMAX J700 (dual 604e) running BeOS * HP Visualize C240 All working and all fun to fire up and play around with from time to time. Tracking down software to play with is a challenge at times. Since most of what I want to fiddle around with is proprietary and long since abandoned (Maya, CATIA, NX, etc.). If by some chance we were to end up on a conference call, you'd see them displayed in the background. :-)

em-bee 5y ago
neat, here is my museum: * Apollo Domain 4500 * HP 9000 * m86k/25 NeXTstation * NeXTstation Turbo * NeXT Cube with NeXTDimension card * SPARCstation 5 * SGI OEM machine from Control-Data with mips R2000A/R3000 * SGI Indy * IBM RS6000/320H * IBM RS6000/250 * Cobalt Qube 2700D * Sun JavaStation1 * Sun Ray1 * SPARC IPC * Alpha-Entry-Workstation 533 they are in storage at my grandmothers now, and i don't know if any of them still run. some of these i was using actively as my workstation at home. some where just to explore. as i got more and more into free software, dealing with the nonfree stuff on those machines got less and less appealing. though i was also running linux on machines that were supported.
- NexRebular 5y ago
  My museum is quite small in comparison: * HP 9000 712/60 * SUN Ultra 1 Creator (With SunPC DX2) * Mac Quadra 610 These are still working, albeit waiting for recapping. The Gecko is running NextSTEP for the original id Software DooM map editor and the Ultra and Quadra are on the original OS they came with. Would love to get more SUN and SGI hardware but the prices are getting quite out of hand...

classichasclass 5y ago

My 900MHz V12 DCD Fuel says hi. I miss Nekochan.

anthk 5y ago
https://forums.sgi.sh/ https://forums.sgi.sh/
bitbckt 5y ago
Forgot to add the DCD. :)

justinlloyd 5y ago

Sounds like it will run circles around my Indigo2 R10K in the workshop. What do you do with all that power?

anthk 5y ago

https://forums.sgi.sh/ https://forums.sgi.sh/

sleepybrett 5y ago

Sometimes I miss 3dwm though apple stole a lot of it's best ideas and put them into the original osx

jacquesm 5y ago
There were some attempts at getting 3dwm to be ported to Linux, but I'm not sure what came of them.

jacquesm 5y ago

That's like driving a classic in modern day traffic, it's a bit slower but it does the job with elegance. Nice rig!