Man beachte das liebliche Pfeifen einer LVDS SCSI Platte beim Start #SGI#O2.
Welcher Rechner kann heute schon von sich behaupten, solch ein Feedback zu geben? #retrocomputing#retrocomputer
This evening, I added support for the SGI image format embedded inside QuickTime containers to my QuickDraw viewer. Turns out SGI images have a 512 byte headers which QuickTime strips, as the data is redundant with what is stored by QuickTime. So before rendering, the full SGI file needs to be reconstructed.
Heyho Fedi,
ich suche jemanden, der sich mit #SGI auskennt. Ich habe eine #Indigo2 und eine #O2. Habe etwas Sorge, wenn ich die an den Strom stecke, dass diese mir sterben. Also die Netzteile und bräuchte da etwas Support. Kann mir jemand weiterhelfen?
In the late 1990s, after running #Merck’s public web sites for several years on their Research Labs’ favored MIPS-based #SGI#IRIX machines, I had to help transition that responsibility to corporate IT and their favored #HP PA-RISC #HPUX servers.
Along the way I had to explain that no, #Apache httpd was not “shareware.”
No, I don't think we would have #Perl in our web browsers (and possibly everywhere else). But #JavaScript might have started less #Self-ish and a little more Perl-ish.
@foo@NanoRaptor Can verify. http://www.merck.com ran on an #SGI Challenge S from 1995 to 1998. For the first year I updated it by dumping files to tape from the Indy on my desk and then walking the tape down to the server room to untar them via an attached #DEC VT320 serial terminal, because IT didn’t trust the web server to be connected to anything but its own T1 line.
Eventually I came across Tatu Ylönen’s #SSH and convinced IT to let me scp files.
@memory@foo@NanoRaptor Did #BBN have any customers who wanted to host their own web site on #SGI gear? Because that might explain the situation when @ajstarks hired me in 1995 to be webmaster@merck.com and I arrived to find an Indy on my desk and a Challenge S in the server room hooked up to a BBN-provisioned T1 line.
The Indy was SGI's entry-level 3D workstation for CAD and 3D animations in 1993. This beautiful computer was actually the first shipped with a webcam and had video I/O ports built-in.
Since 2023 isn't over yet, there are a few days left to celebrate IT's 30th Anniversary and to realize that @Blender was developed on one of them.
🟪🟩 Silicon Graphics - SGI once reigned supreme in the realm of the most powerful graphics workstations and servers.
💸 In the museum, we preserve many of these systems, which when new could cost more than $10,000 and even $100,000, along with some of their high-end monitors and peripherals:
@muzej Had a lowest of the low-end Indys waiting on my desk when I arrived as webmaster at a Fortune 100 company in 1995. Apparently it was bundled with the #SGI Challenge S (rebadged Indy stripped of graphics hardware) as a “#SiliconGraphics WebFORCE” package, along with #Netscape server and browser software.
🦖🌪️ Silicon Graphics graphic workstations were once synonymous with high performance - they even appeared in movies like Jurassic Park, Twister, and Congo. In the museum, we have a lot of interesting peripherals for them, including several SGI IndyCam cameras.
💡 #TIL that, aside from fancy #CGI and #3D workstations and servers, legendary manufacturer #SiliconGraphics also sold an #espressomaker for ca. 190 DM in Germany.
I love this brittle beast I found on Ebay and impulsively bid on. The seller hand-delivered it within a day or two! I'm grateful for that because I doubt it would have survived shipping... the aged plastic case is extremely brittle and delicate. I've already broken (and repaired) two clips (one clip immediately broke again!).