Getting Started, Documentation, Tips & Tricks

I recently asked for some help on this list and got a big listing of part numbers from a former SGI employee, so lots more was added today.

recondas wrote: Can I ask why you located your articles (and a separate table of contents) inside your 'User Page? Your contributions would be easier for other users of the wiki to locate if it were added to the existing/similar Media Product Number article . Ditto for your "Legalize Model Number" page, which could be added to the SGI Model Numbers article .

Sorry, I thought I responded to this earlier. I simply wanted to keep track of CDs for myself, in particular which ones I had archived so that when I see them on ebay or wherever I would know if I was interested or not. It seemed like it might be useful to others, so I decided to put it on the wiki here, but in my user space.

The model numbers are in even worse shape than the CD part numbers in that there are better places on the net where such information is recorded for various machines and I haven't yet consolidated that into a useful reference.

ShadeOfBlue wrote: This should take care of most of the duplicates:

Code: Select all

$ cat cds.txt | sort -k1 | uniq -i | awk '{ if (prev != $1) { prev = $1; print $0; } }' > cds-nodup.txt

Generates this file:

cds-nodup.txt

Entries are sorted by part number, with duplicate part numbers removed. Still needs a human to prettify the output, though

Updated the list again from the attachemnt.

Here's my own collection :

Jack Luminous wrote: Here's my own collection [...]

Can you please edit out ones that are already in the list?

I have a software library sealed, part number 013-2478-012 REV A
I don't want to break the seal unless it's something I need. Does anyone have any info on this?

Cheers

uunix wrote: I have a software library sealed, part number 013-2478-012 REV A

Wiki time! http://www.nekochan.net/wiki/User:Legal ... rt_Numbers
Actually not listed but Legalize states that the 013- numbers are used for box sets of IRIX releases.

On Ebay http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/2816753383 ... rmvSB=true we learn that it's IRIX 6.5.12 release. Makes sense since the last three digits are 012

I believe that is the base IRIX distribution. -014 is 6.5.12, so -012 might be 6.5.10 if the part numbers have any sequencing to them.

Yeah, OK, that makes more sense that -012 is 6.5.12. From somewhere I got the information that -014 was 6.5.14, but it was probably from ebay and that's not always accurate.

Cheers chaps, yes I was getting close to suspecting it was around that. No need to open it then.

I think these smaller "software library" ones are the incremental OS updates from the base 6.5 release. There are larger software library box sets that represent everything you need to scratch install IRIX.

I've got a 013-2478-001 rev A here and that's a full installation set ( ~ 15 discs?) of IRIX 6.5. It may have come with 6.5.1 overlays originally as well, I have/had quite a few of those.

Yeah, the part number for the box is only on the little cellophane wrapper and most people toss that when they open the box set. SGI CD part numbers that I've seen are "BASIC indexed" and not "C indexed", so the first in a series of updates for a single product will be -001, then -002, etc.

Hmm, well, my box has the sticker on the box. Otherwise it would have been gone indeed

It's companion box is (in my case at least) 013-2522-002 rev A, the Varsity update for 6.5, with the 7.2.1 compilers and Performer 2.2

heh Just goes to show that SGI did things differently over the years with respect to the CD packaging

All that's needed now are download links!

strong_epoxy wrote: All that's needed now are download links!

If that happens it will have to be outside of this forum and site because aliens...