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> SGI hardware was beautiful What I remember most was the startup chime - in an era when piezo electric speakers would be the norm the SGI startup chime was in
by helsinkiandrew 3y ago
> SGI hardware was beautiful
What I remember most was the startup chime - in an era when piezo electric speakers would be the norm the SGI startup chime was incredibly rich and extravagant.
- colechristensen 3y agoApparently they had lots and lots of noises that had to be turned off in university computer labs because it was so obnoxious. Like cliche hacker movie levels of noises but worse. I heard some stories as a student working in engineering IT.
- codetrotter 3y ago> Like cliche hacker movie levels of noises but worse It kind of makes sense tho. Some people were making CGI for movies on SGI boxes. And naturally, some of the movies where SGI machines were involved ended up putting those machines in the movie itself: > Jurassic Park featured a lot of computer generated images and it was one of the first movies to show SGI computers on screen. http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/jpark.html http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/index.html http://www.sgistuff.net/funstuff/hollywood/index.html So if the SGI computers made a lot of computer noises. Perhaps this helped inspire the portrayal of noisy computers in hacker movies.
- hestefisk 3y agoTrue. At my comp sci department, we called the Onyx “the Hoover”.
- fsckboy 3y agoSGI boot chimes https://youtu.be/1zjuyLXsmew?t=30 https://youtu.be/1zjuyLXsmew?t=30 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLwZhmkW8Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZLwZhmkW8Y
- labcomputer 3y agoSadly, I can’t find any videos with the alternate boot chimes (you could choose from 4 in the prom monitor) for the (purple) Indigo2.
- nocoiner 3y agoLove that Indigo boot chime - never heard it before.