Everything Else

It has been a while sense we have had one of these threads. Here is my setup and SGI collection.

Lets See Yours....

we have a gallery for that

I don't have this setup anymore (moved out and put most of my babies in storage), but this setup will exist again someday, and more.

Not pictured: Crimson, SPARCstation 10, and a half-dozen PeeCees & laptops.

is that a mac on the left?

I see three. An LC/Performa (or Quadra 605?), a Color Classic, and what I think might be a Radius clone.

No way to take photographs here. It's a freaking mess! @_@

Radius 8100/110, clone of the 8100 right? Those are built like tanks.

Have you done any mods to the Color Classic?

Good eyes, yes! Radius 81/110, which is indeed an 8100 clone. It runs MacOS 7.6.1 and contains a SuperMac Thunder 24, an FWB Jackhammer SCSI card, and a VideoVision video capture board with the Studio upgrade. It's a very solid system - nice thick metal case. I've got ElectricImage, Strata Studio Pro, and Lightwave 3D 5.6 installed on it, with a bunch of other graphics apps and games. Runs very nicely and is very useful for care and feeding of the other Macs.

The Color Classic is stock, with an 80MB HDD (still works!), an ethernet board, and the maximum 10MB of memory (actually 12MB but the last 2MB are unusable). Bought it for $40 from a thrift store in Los Angeles about six years ago, which explains the suntan It runs MacOS 7.1 and is so damn slow that it's really only useful for word processing. Interesting note - it was playing dead recently, refusing to power up, but leaving it plugged in for several days was enough to "refresh the capacitors" (or whatever), so it finally booted.

The third Mac is a Performa 466 running MacOS 7.5.3. It's also maxed-out: 36MB RAM, ethernet, 68882 FPU. It's a pretty unremarkable system, but it does make for a decent vintage gaming machine. I also found it in a thrift store in Los Angeles - it had never been used.

Not shown: my 12" iBook G4, 17" PowerBook G4, and a Quadra 700 running A/UX, maxed-out with 64MB of RAM. Very cute system, if not very useful. Would be fun to turn it into a web server someday and list it here.

Everyone sort of knows mine, but what the heck:

I think the 68882 is pretty remarkable. Not a lot of LC boxes seem to have them installed.

I love my Quadra 700. I haven't used it in awhile, but it spent years acting as a router (via IPNetRouter). The cool thing about it is that it'd route through LocalTalk too, so not only did it serve all my ethernet machines, but also allowed all my older Macs without ethernet to connect to the internet as well.

<ajerimez> Your room reminded about my lecturer's office or perhaps research office. Clean and tidy.


<ItsMeOnly> wow, your room is like small scale full fledeged DAW studio. I wonder if you use all of these keyboards there....though one deck on your rack looks like Yamaha O2R...maybe not. Do you use windows mainly or mac for your DAW tasks?

My Performa 475 was acting like this, a kind guy in Apple service explained these do that when internal battery dies or is near death.

It's 01, and I don't use software to control it, it is what it is: a downmix console. Using Linux to record.

did you tidy up before shooting?

Just moved the cables offscreen

I think I've posted in one of these threads before but my stuff gets moved around so much it is likely completely different by now...

if you look closely you can see my super-high-tech 1600sw monitor leveling system (ball point pen):


here is the other desk where you can see the console for the octane however ATM the keyboard and mouse (and that junky white monitor) are hooked up to my alpha as I'm in the mood for a bit of NT4 spelunking...

God you guys places are clean. I'll post a pic of mine after I pick up some.

I upgraded from ~120 dpi to ~85 dpi, now I can see the screen without glasses! plus the extra pixels are fantastic for mathematica, multiple word documents, watching TV while browsing the web, etc. Plus, you can put me in the 'dualhead-tard' category now


"hyperspace":


X and zero :



I try and keep at least the computer desk free of clutter. you should see the workbench downstairs... actually you can't see it, there is so much clutter on it. Likewise all my desk drawers are full of old hard drives, cables, papers, CD's, tools, toys, etc.

sybrfreq, What kind of keyboard is that?

Looks like a modded C64

wow, your setup is awesome. I love your keyboard