SGI: hinv

It's seemed a little quiet on the hinv section for a while, so it seemed a good excuse to put up the details of my Indy. Another scrapper from work, this was absolutely barebones with a 100MHz CPU, 32MB RAM, 8 bit graphics and some extremely loud old drives measured in MB not GB It's duly received several upgrades to make it a bit more usable, and I also put in a 15K 146GB SCSI drive.

hinv output:



gfxinfo output:



Couple of bad pictures..





Cheers.

Nice specs!

You gotta love Indy..

Mines doing work tonight also.

chicaneuk is that monitor SOG-OK or do you have a conversion device?

The monitor does indeed seem to be SOG and is connected up by a DIY cable a friend of mine made up for me The problem with the monitor is that the native res isn't supported on any of my kit (1680x1050).

chicaneuk wrote: Another scrapper from work, this was absolutely barebones with a 100MHz CPU, 32MB RAM, 8 bit graphics and some extremely loud old drives measured in MB not GB

Yup, had one exactly like that in my first real job ... did real work with it too.

jan-jaap wrote:

chicaneuk wrote: Another scrapper from work, this was absolutely barebones with a 100MHz CPU, 32MB RAM, 8 bit graphics and some extremely loud old drives measured in MB not GB

Yup, had one exactly like that in my first real job ... did real work with it too.

I guess in it's defence, IRIX was a bit less bloated back then so probably booted and ran a bit quicker!

chicaneuk wrote: I guess in it's defence, IRIX was a bit less bloated back then so probably booted and ran a bit quicker!

True, but it came with IRIX 5.1.x which leaked memory like nothing else so it had to be rebooted every couple of days.

With IRIX 5.3 it was perfectly usable, especially after we upgraded the memory with an extra 64MB. Of course, 'usable' was compared to a contemporary PC, usually a 486DX/2 running Windows 95 or OS/2 Warp.

uunix wrote: You gotta love Indy..

Mines doing work tonight also.

oh you're running cde. that's quite a rare sight

foetz wrote: oh you're running cde. that's quite a rare sight

I'd boot mine up in CDE every now and then, just from curiosity. As far as CDE experiences go, the SGI version was quite nice and snappy. I can't quite put my finger on any objective reason why this was the case, but CDE somehow felt smoother on an SGI machine than on Sun or AIX machines of similar vintage and power. It's easy to setup CDE and then switch back to the Irix Interactive Desktop when finished (just a matter of installing the CDE eoe and then setting/unsetting some chkconfig flags), so if you are at all curious, I suggest giving it a try.

josehill wrote:

foetz wrote: oh you're running cde. that's quite a rare sight

I'd boot mine up in CDE every now and then, just from curiosity. As far as CDE experiences go, the SGI version was quite nice and snappy. I can't quite put my finger on any objective reason why this was the case, but CDE somehow felt smoother on an SGI machine than on Sun or AIX machines of similar vintage and power. It's easy to setup CDE and then switch back to the Irix Interactive Desktop when finished (just a matter of installing the CDE eoe and then setting/unsetting some chkconfig flags), so if you are at all curious, I suggest giving it a try.

oh i did run cde on irix myself a couple of times. it's just not something you see often

foetz wrote: oh i did run cde on irix myself a couple of times. it's just not something you see often

That's for sure. Whenever I ran it, people would walk by and assume I was running a remote display. "Hey! How did you get those cool fonts in AIX?"

josehill wrote:

foetz wrote: oh i did run cde on irix myself a couple of times. it's just not something you see often

That's for sure. Whenever I ran it, people would walk by and assume I was running a remote display. "Hey! How did you get those cool fonts in AIX?"

LOL! My only CDE systems right now are, indeed, my AIX boxes and my C8000.

The desktop you see is from a Power6 AIX CDE, I was telneted into the Indy.

uunix wrote: The desktop you see is from a Power6 AIX CDE, I was telneted into the Indy.

...which makes the last few remarks by foetz and me even funnier. Well, at least to me.

uunix wrote: The desktop you see is from a Power6 AIX CDE, I was telneted into the Indy.

Whee. Which POWER6? I have a p520.

Sorry ClassicHasClass, it's a power 5, realised I miss-typed.

It's a 9111 285. running AIX 7.1, I picked it up from a guy who wanted to run Catia on it but couldn't licence/crack it. I haven't done much with it really yet apart from put 7.1 on it, which I'm not sure was the best thing to do in hindsight. I do like it though, and it's so quiet you can hardly tell it's running.

Some years ago I left a company and left my AS/400 there, completely forgot it. I only thought about it yesterday, so I contacted the boss and there is a slight chance he still has it.

That'd be cool. No one's really preserving those old AS/400 systems.

josehill wrote:

uunix wrote: The desktop you see is from a Power6 AIX CDE, I was telneted into the Indy.

...which makes the last few remarks by foetz and me even funnier. Well, at least to me.

for sure, same here. so hey, seems we have an advantage then