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I have a real Indy, still works great.

nineteen999 4y ago
My first "real" IT job was in a mom & pop ISP back in the late 1990's. The entire software side was running on an Indy running IRIX 5.3 when I started there. Fond memories.
- ilikepi 4y ago
  Funny coincidence, mine was, too. The founder acquired the Indy from his previous employer, and it sat in a corner running DNS. There was a Windows box running a RADIUS server, and a Cisco 2501 router. The main office was also a PoP site, so there were a couple Hayes modem banks and a concentrator box. There were 5 other PoP sites around the state, because this was when calling a few towns away was "long distance".
- icedchai 4y ago
  I worked at an ISP that ran a couple of its web servers on Indy's. The hardware was nice, but IRIX 5.x was kind of a mess. It came out of the box with very loose security. X11 was open to the world (equivalent of "xhost +".) This meant anyone could key log you from remote if you were logged into the console.
  - Bluecobra 4y ago
    Those days were a magical time for a teenager poking around. A lot of things were directly connected to the ‘net without a firewall or behind a NAT gateway. I wish I had the knowledge I have today back then.
    - icedchai 4y ago
      I remember vividly. A friend literally "owned" a few local universities that had lax security, then gave out credentials to a bunch of other teens on some underground BBSes. They were hogging all the modem pools, compiling their own IRC clients on the university Sun boxes, and causing general mayhem. This went on for a while until they finally locked things down. The late 80's, early 90's were crazy times.
  - nineteen999 4y ago
    We had a build of ipfilter at the time installed, as we were aware of that. Even got OpenLDAP compiling for IRIX 5.3 and migrated all the local accounts into that, before building an UltraSparc 10 compatible server from parts from Sun Microelectronics and moving the LDAP server function to there. Those were the days.
classichasclass 4y ago
My first webcam pic was taken on an IndyCam. It may be an Indigo without the go, but I still love the Indy. Many hours wasted as an undergrad on sgidoom.
- jacquesm 4y ago
  That cam is what launched the whole webcam rage in 1995 right from my office in Hoofddorp, NL. A few years later we were doing fashion shows, car races, shuttle launches and whatever else people wanted to see.
- the_only_law 4y ago
  I have an Indy and IndyCam as well as some SGI branded Polk Audio speakers sitting in my living room right now. Unfortunately it’s not in a working state. The person I got the memory from sold me had modules and it lacks a disk, and I’ve blown wayyy to much money in retrocomputers so I figure sadly it will likely end up in storage or sold. I was going to try add support to my custom ISDN stack (yet another semi-abandoned project that likely won’t get completed) to be able to use the Indy’s ISDN interface. Who knows maybe sometime I’ll pick it up again.
  - jacquesm 4y ago
    I may be able to get you parts and/or may already have them. Are you in Europe or rather on the other side of some ocean?
    - the_only_law 4y ago
      Unfortunately across the ocean. I don’t think there’s much that needs to be replaced but tbh it was one of the last machines I’ve bought and haven’t played with it too much. if I recall correctly I mostly just need some working memory, a disk, and possible a specific “ramified timekeeper” if I’m not mixing up my computers. To be honest the biggest thing preventing me from working on a lot of my retro computers is cost of to get USB<->SCSI interface lol.

My first "real" IT job was in a mom & pop ISP back in the late 1990's. The entire software side was running on an Indy running IRIX 5.3 when I started there. Fond memories.

ilikepi 4y ago
Funny coincidence, mine was, too. The founder acquired the Indy from his previous employer, and it sat in a corner running DNS. There was a Windows box running a RADIUS server, and a Cisco 2501 router. The main office was also a PoP site, so there were a couple Hayes modem banks and a concentrator box. There were 5 other PoP sites around the state, because this was when calling a few towns away was "long distance".
icedchai 4y ago
I worked at an ISP that ran a couple of its web servers on Indy's. The hardware was nice, but IRIX 5.x was kind of a mess. It came out of the box with very loose security. X11 was open to the world (equivalent of "xhost +".) This meant anyone could key log you from remote if you were logged into the console.
- Bluecobra 4y ago
  Those days were a magical time for a teenager poking around. A lot of things were directly connected to the ‘net without a firewall or behind a NAT gateway. I wish I had the knowledge I have today back then.
  - icedchai 4y ago
    I remember vividly. A friend literally "owned" a few local universities that had lax security, then gave out credentials to a bunch of other teens on some underground BBSes. They were hogging all the modem pools, compiling their own IRC clients on the university Sun boxes, and causing general mayhem. This went on for a while until they finally locked things down. The late 80's, early 90's were crazy times.
- nineteen999 4y ago
  We had a build of ipfilter at the time installed, as we were aware of that. Even got OpenLDAP compiling for IRIX 5.3 and migrated all the local accounts into that, before building an UltraSparc 10 compatible server from parts from Sun Microelectronics and moving the LDAP server function to there. Those were the days.

classichasclass 4y ago

My first webcam pic was taken on an IndyCam. It may be an Indigo without the go, but I still love the Indy. Many hours wasted as an undergrad on sgidoom.

jacquesm 4y ago
That cam is what launched the whole webcam rage in 1995 right from my office in Hoofddorp, NL. A few years later we were doing fashion shows, car races, shuttle launches and whatever else people wanted to see.
the_only_law 4y ago
I have an Indy and IndyCam as well as some SGI branded Polk Audio speakers sitting in my living room right now. Unfortunately it’s not in a working state. The person I got the memory from sold me had modules and it lacks a disk, and I’ve blown wayyy to much money in retrocomputers so I figure sadly it will likely end up in storage or sold. I was going to try add support to my custom ISDN stack (yet another semi-abandoned project that likely won’t get completed) to be able to use the Indy’s ISDN interface. Who knows maybe sometime I’ll pick it up again.
- jacquesm 4y ago
  I may be able to get you parts and/or may already have them. Are you in Europe or rather on the other side of some ocean?
  - the_only_law 4y ago
    Unfortunately across the ocean. I don’t think there’s much that needs to be replaced but tbh it was one of the last machines I’ve bought and haven’t played with it too much. if I recall correctly I mostly just need some working memory, a disk, and possible a specific “ramified timekeeper” if I’m not mixing up my computers. To be honest the biggest thing preventing me from working on a lot of my retro computers is cost of to get USB<->SCSI interface lol.