4 ms·
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.
by 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 agoThat 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 agoI 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 agoI 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 agoUnfortunately 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.
- steponlego 4y agoSCSI2SD is the way these days.
- the_only_law 4y agoWow I don’t know how I missed this a few months back. I was convinced that my best option was to pay $200 for a some old ass USB to SCSI converter on eBay.
- jacquesm 4y agoFor $61 that's a steal. https://store.rabbitholecomputing.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=ZuluSCSI-V1.1-REV-2022C https://store.rabbitholecomputing.com/ProductDetails.asp?Pro... Especially given that any drive that old is likely not going to be very long for this world unless it was very well stored NOS.
- jacquesm 4y agoI probably have a SCSI disk somewhere with IRIX on it suitable for Indy/Challenger but it hasn't spun in twenty years. Want me to start digging? Probably also have some IRIX CDs, but here is a quicker way: https://archive.org/download/irix53xfs/irix5.3xfs.img https://archive.org/download/irix53xfs/irix5.3xfs.img
- steponlego 4y agoSGI speakers? That’d go with my setup. Are they in that granite finish?
- the_only_law 4y agoNo the Polk Audio ones came a in a flatter grey color (though I have seen the granite speakers on eBay). These are the ones I have: https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_1824833 https://www.si.edu/object/nmah_1824833 Looks like they were designed for a different SGI machine, but at the end of the day they’re just speakers.
- steponlego 4y agoJust kind of want the matching set. I'll go through the ad materials and figure out if they were for the Indy or not.
- steponlego 4y agoI was going to buy one back in the 1990s but I went for a tricked out PC instead because of games, LOL. I picked this one up a while later. Great little machine.