The collected works of Krokodil - Page 3

ivelegacy wrote: Which applications ?

I know the real problem is with LCDs, I mean V6 needs more care about choosing the compliant LCD, I haven't experimented other troubles with any applications (Mathematica, Illustrator, Photoshop, WordPerfect), but I do not have a lot of applications here, mainly I was using MIPS/Pro + OpenGL + gcc to develop something cool, but in my signature you can see what is in my wish list

( Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, AutoDYNþ )

yep, I have seen a few V12, and its price was floating from 250 to 300 euro

vishnu wrote: Rooting around my vast pile of computer junk and I found this. I don't know how I got this, or, perhaps more to the point I don't have the tapes but you can apparently buy them on Ebay.

recondas wrote:

Krokodil wrote: IMPACT based demos .....

For the record, you can run most of the Impact Demos with VPro graphics. I have all of the ones on the Octane Demonstration Programs 1.3 CD installed/running on an V12 Octane, a Tezro and an O350 with V12 graphics. Since they were also mentioned, ditto for Photoshop, Illustrator, MIPSPro (7.4) and WordPerfect (don't have Premiere, Ansys, Catia, Pro/E, FiberSIM, or AutoDYNþ).

You may need to invoke rulesoverrride to get them installed (scroll down to the 'Preferences' section of man swmgr if you're not already familiar with rulesoverride).

When you run them you'll get a warning:

Code: Select all

This Demo runs best on OCTANE MXE or Maximum Impact systems

You can safely ignore the warning and click the run button to start the demo.

mapesdhs wrote: I don't aim them at hobbyists. I currently act as support for a couple of airforce training setups where they're still used.

Pity it isn't possible to respin the tech in a modern shrunk process, stick it on a single chip card (but with the same I/O ports), allow
for Max + many options. Oh well.

Ian.

chicaneuk wrote: Indigo2 IMPACT power supplies seem to be particularly fragile!

Krokodil wrote: It is very nice. The look of the olden days 3D graphics is much more appealing to me than the new stuff.

Is that going to be a haunted house ride? Perhaps it could actually be made to be ride through like Horizons Resurrected.

hamei wrote:

Krokodil wrote: Ah yes, I did have a scare like that myself early on, video graphics board trouble, but was probably caused by an improperly reinstalled TRAM ...

DaJuice wrote:

Krokodil wrote: Welcome, that's a very clean and nice Octane. I am afraid to polish mine for fear of messing it up lol.
But all in all they are very nice machines and I hope you love yours as much as I love mine.

Thanks Krokodil. In all honesty, I thought I had messed it up, but the MBTB evened everything out pretty well.

vishnu wrote:

DaJuice wrote: I realized upon boot was that the white LED bulb in the lightbar had gone out.

All the bulbs on mine are out except the red one (which is the one that's only on up to successful POST or thereabout), why they felt they needed to use incandescent bulbs is a design fail that defies logical explanation...

Yeah it's a mystery. This machine does actually have a LED modded lightbar, The LED just gave out for whatever reason.

ClassicHasClass wrote: Most of my machines are on a secured network that can't route (directly) to the Internet. Only a few have outside facing NICs, and none of them are the SGIs.

vishnu wrote:

Krokodil wrote: just don't feel that my IRIX boxes should be on the internet.

But if they're behind a NATing firewall are they really on the Internet? I think there's a big difference between being on the Internet and being able to get to the Internet. In the 8 years since I've had IRIX boxes on my LAN, and knowing of my firewall as the Internet gateway, I've never had a problem. I hasten to add that not knowing of any problems doesn't mean there aren't any problems. For all we know the NSA could be sitting inside all our computers. Although, if they were inside mine, why haven't I been cuffed and stuffed yet? "Guilty of every computer crime we have a law for..."

rosehillbob wrote: I am trying to install tru64 or openvms on a Alphaserver ES47 which has the EV7 processor. I have two such units I would like to get some OS on! The ES47,ES80,GS280 are the last models from DEC/Compaq/HP with a a Alpha processor and the only models with the EV7 processor.

Zerolapse wrote: In any case...single CPU in an octane isn't nearly as fun as two anyway.

ivelegacy wrote: Ian is super

ClassicHasClass wrote: Someone want to build these for a little green for those of us who are so dangerous with a soldering iron that I actually soldered my foot once? (Not kidding.)

Seriously -- I'd like to get that stupid active green filter off my Indy. I'll pay a decent price.

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

ivelegacy wrote:

miod wrote: I don't have room for such a machine and this wouldn't be a reasonable decision.

resources[]={ room, electricity, time, … }
so I prefer to be focused only on IP30

seclorum wrote: Hi SGI fans,

So I was a heavy SGI user back in the day, had myself a personal Indy stack in my lab for development (software), had some great connections in the Hollywood SGI scene for software and so on, and had a great time until SGI moved to NT and I decided to move to Apple for my hardware needs - perhaps there are others in this boat.

I was recently given an SGI Indy for free! This was a great gift, and my task now is to get it up and running and fully functioning as a workstation - it came with no cables, but the previous owner said "it makes the boot sound when you plug it in" .. so there is hope.

What I'd like to know is if anyone has any tips or tricks for me about what to do with these old machines these days. Ultimately I'd love to fill it to the brim with working software - there was a game whose name I cannot remember, but it was awesome - it was like a ringworld-in-space kind of mech shooter .. think this will run on this Indy? It has as far as I can tell, 128megs of RAM, an R5000 (badge), and the stock SCSI internal disks .. but I haven't boosted it yet, since I don't have a monitor/keyboard/mouse combination for it yet ..

I'm thinking of doing the Internal VGA modification documented on the wiki - anyone else done this, if so, tips/hints?

I also have an O2 machine available - if I can get both of these machines in working order, I'll be tickled SGI blue .. anyone got any clues what to do with these two machines if I get them up and running? Would love to have some sort of functionality - even if its rudimentary - out of them as workstations ...

EDIT: Wanted to add pics, in case its of interest ..

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ivelegacy wrote:

Krokodil wrote: I don't take in big iron systems only desktop sized ones

here I have only these machines

• Cerberus , which serves the whole local infranet, exporting NFS (Irix and linux filesharing), SMB/CIFS (Windows filesharing), SSHFS (RS/P, over FUSE), HTTP (personal wikipedia, personal blog), and RAID mirroring on a pool of 3 pairs of hard drives. It's located in the living room, it does makes no noise, it has a 7" LCD with touch screen on the front, and it's easy to control, so my girl friend is happy with its wikipedia and blog full of fashion things (OMG, I have reserved a pair of hard drive, a.k.a the whole pool0, to her needs)
• Octane2 , aka the big iron in blue hulk skin, currently does not wear any plastic and it lives hidden in the attic, attached to a control box with a lot of thin cables and wire going in and out its front-plane. I was said that it looks like a troll in its cyberpunk cave out from a Gibson's story (o'really ? )
• RiscPC/600 1 Slice, it lives in my little office standing vertically, looking for a second slice in order to hide an MC68332 inside, plus its equipment. I have hidden an embedded linux board inside with the purpose of providing a better file sharing (may be VNC) to RiscOS, which runs a true DOS box over gemini_II chip (486DX4@100Mhz). It's a very nice, quite, fast, and funny machine, especially if you install a DDE kit
• RS/P plus its external harddrive, it is so tiny and smaller than hulk by several order of magnitudes, that it can live in the living room, hidden under the hifi box, like a dwarf in its cave. It's MIPS32-R2, it shares a part (compiled as MIPS1) of its rootfs with Octane2 (MIPS4), oh well, but it worked only with kernel 2.6.17, cause kernel 4.1.* does not work with binaries compiled for PAGESIZE=4Kbyte, it wants PAGESIZE=64Kbyte. I am distilling a new stage, which does work
• XP217 Xterm , located in my little office, near RiscPC, no bigger than a toaster, it's tftp-bootstrapped by Cerberus, employed as console of everything, including Irix

my girl friend said
- chaos is not allowed, things must be in order!
- things here (especially things in the living room) must have a purpose

corollary: if she doesn't see, then it's ok
consequence: things must be hidden, like Transformers or dwarfs in their cave

so, can I use Lord Crimson as "wine refrigerator" ?

ivelegacy wrote: @Krokodil
great set up, lucky you when you can stay on IP30's console, I envy you, mine needs to be hidden in the rock more than a troll-dwarf, cause if caught by the "my darling wicked witch" it will be put on the flea bay !

gijoe77 wrote: so the 3d games I looked at seem to be all not working perfectly per design.

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foetz wrote:

Alver wrote:

Krokodil wrote: Unfortunately that's the dilemma with many of these machines is that finding software for them is very difficult or impossible.

It seems to be particularly problematic with Tru64, VMS, HP-UX, AIX.

... why? I don't see how it's any more or less problematic.

simply because sgi was more popular for desktop use hence in comparison there's more available

foetz wrote:

Krokodil wrote: I don't have HP-UX, but I doubt it's any better

it is, a lot actually: http://hpux.connect.org.uk

uunix wrote: We used to use a product called MUMPS (database type language) on HP years back, I have a zillion DDS 3 (or 4) tapes for them in the shed. I don't know if MUMPS still exists, I suppose it must as it was used in a lot of hospitals over here.

I'll have to have a look at the copyright and if I can get anything off the tapes.

astouffer wrote:

foetz wrote: why

Shipping probably costs more than the value of the display itself. Of course being SGI branded gives it some collectibility. I don't miss having a CRT one bit.