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Wrote on the subject of Avid TrueVision drivers at June 10, 2009, 6:55 p.m...

I checked the cards in the Apple System Profiler (I never realized how handy it is until now) two cardslisted are a Truevision, Targa 2000PCI and an Avid, PCI-Janus board.

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Wrote on the subject of Avid TrueVision drivers at June 11, 2009, 9:51 a.m...

Ah, so this is a rather nice card then.
I'll try and get pics up once I figure out where on earth to locate those blasted drivers and start working on videos.

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Wrote on the subject of Akihabara at June 13, 2009, 9:50 p.m...

I would of paid freight fees on sending some stuff home or just pack a lot lighter than usual.

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Wrote on the subject of Akihabara at June 14, 2009, 2:49 p.m...

maxsleg wrote:

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I would of paid freight fees on sending some stuff home or just pack a lot lighter than usual.

You'd fall in love with one of the Manga girls and stay here!!!!

If I can barely afford a one bedroom apartment in Vancouver, I doubt I'll be able to afford much in Tokyo.

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Wrote on the subject of Akihabara at June 17, 2009, 8:51 a.m...

maxsleg wrote:

Some nice girls for Pentium?

I'm dispatching a hitman to assassinate you the moment you step out of the airport when you get home.

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Wrote on the subject of Akihabara at June 18, 2009, 5:26 a.m...

Geoman wrote:

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I'm dispatching a hitman[...]

But why? these are so cute girlies!

He's pushing my buttons.

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Wrote on the subject of vBulletin at July 11, 2009, 8:56 a.m...

I helped administrate on another VB forum last year (but was later DDos'ed by 7chan and shut down) and it always seemed that whenever there was an update, our custom skin/theme broke.
Don't know if it was because of us or what but I never really liked it.

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Wrote on the subject of Origin 3200 half rack icon at July 25, 2009, 8:09 a.m...

It was my initial idea but for the Onyx2/Origin2K and newer racks, someone else made the final contributions.

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Wrote on the subject of Show Off Your Home Office Setup & SGI Collection... at Sept. 1, 2009, 8:39 p.m...

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

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Wrote on the subject of Microdrive access at Sept. 4, 2009, 8:14 a.m...

My old MP3 player had a 4gb Seagate ST64022CF microdrive in it and it contains a considerable chunk of my music. Needless to say the MP3 player has died but I still have the microdrive.
I'm trying to backup the contents of it but I'm running into serious problems.
The main issue is that no matter what method I try to access it in both Linux and Windows (be it an internal card reader, PCMCIA to Microdrive adapter, IDE to microdrive adapter or USB to laptop IDE adapter followed by a Laptop IDE to microdrive adapter) The result is I can see it in the OS but I can't copy files off it. It appears what happens is that when the microdive is connected to the system using any of the above methods the microdrive likes to spin up and down like it's crashing, then spin up and then spin down and refuse to work until you unplug it and plug it back in.
It shows all the symptoms of being dead (short of not being able to see the contents which I can and briefly play some of the music back) but this is where things get really weird for me.
If I take the microdrive and plug it into my PS3 (I have the 80gb MGS4 unit with the card reader) not only will it see it, access it and play back it's contents but the thing acts perfectly normal. Shoot, I can even dump the whole thing to the internal hard drive on the PS3. Unfortunately, after it is on the PS3's hard drive I have no way to transfer it to another medium to move it back onto my pc and I can't copy the contents of the microdrive to another storage medium like an SD card or a USB drive that might be plugged in.

It is an OEM microdrive but should it really be this fussy with me?

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Wrote on the subject of Microdrive access at Sept. 4, 2009, 9:41 a.m...

I don't have the slightest idea what the power draw would be.

But according to a pdf file from Seagate...:

Seagate wrote: Startup current 5V (peak) (maximum RMS in 10ms window)--350 mA
Seek power (typical 3.3V)----------226 mA
Read/write power (typical 3.3V)----------330 mA
Performance idle mode (typical 3.3V)----------200 mA
Low power idle mode (typical 3.3V)----------90 mA
Standby/Sleep mode (typical 3.3V)----------30 mA

Link to full PDF and remember I'm using the ST64022CF

Still, for my IDE to Microdrive adapter I should not have power consumption issues as it draws power directly from a regular 4 pin molex connector.

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Wrote on the subject of eBay: Onyx 10000 InfiniteReality... at Sept. 4, 2009, 9:29 p.m...

That's like, twice the weight. What the hell?

Someone should throw him a better offer as it's not going to go anywhere at that price.

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Wrote on the subject of Microdrive access at Sept. 4, 2009, 9:30 p.m...

Hmm. Well then I have no idea how to fix that.

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Wrote on the subject of Microdrive access at Sept. 5, 2009, 5:27 p.m...

hamei wrote:

pentium wrote: Hmm. Well then I have no idea how to fix that.

If you want to mail it over I can give it a shot ... my CameraMate firewire adapter has been successful with reading a microdrive (an IBM drive tho.)

Do I trust the postal system to deliver the thing in one piece?

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Wrote on the subject of Microdrive access at Sept. 7, 2009, 8:10 a.m...

I'll go take it to fellow member Jax and see if he can do anything with it. China is a bit too far for me to try.

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Wrote on the subject of Microdrive access at Sept. 9, 2009, 7:23 a.m...

Yes, it's a Type II card so it will fit in a Type II Compact flash slot like the one in my PC and my PS3. Actually, any Type II card is normally a Microdrive.

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Wrote on the subject of sgi 540 power issues. at Sept. 9, 2009, 7:29 a.m...

un_ wrote: I wonder if whoever owned yours previously wanted to run the machine with the side panel off for a while, normally the machine will shut down immediately if you open it.

Could mean the last owner was a gamer. :lol:

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Wrote on the subject of Microdrive access at Sept. 11, 2009, 4:51 a.m...

Went there, got the drive successfully dumped onto a USB stick and.....left the damn stick in Vancouver.
Well at the least we got 98% of the music off of it.

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Wrote on the subject of eBay: Onyx2 Racks in Skokie IL at Sept. 12, 2009, 9:34 p.m...

Anyone driving West soon? I'll pay you in the form of a 24 pack of Sleemans beer.

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Wrote on the subject of Sweet deal on a used ThinkPad! at Sept. 21, 2009, 8:19 a.m...

Is that a T30?
Damn, I would of bid on it if the LCD was a bit less abused.

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Wrote on the subject of Pentium Pro VRM modules at Sept. 30, 2009, 4:38 p.m...

I found a VERY nice supermicro P6DNF dual Pentium pro motherboard which after some searching I found two 200mhz P Pros to fit on it.

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The thing also looks to be a full-size AT board. I have never seen that before.
Unfortunately I only received one VRM module for it. I had a Pentium Pro board before this which also needed a VRM module but this one is vastly different.

Here's the one that came with the board...

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...and here is the VRM from my last Pentium Pro motherboard.

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If I search for the P6VRM-1 I get two hits on ebay but both modules are $100 and I don't keep high hopes for the ones I see on google either.
I'm assuming you can't really mix and match Pentium Pro VRM modules, correct?

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Wrote on the subject of Pentium Pro VRM modules at Sept. 30, 2009, 7:10 p.m...

Thanks for the link abut I would still prefer not cooking something.
Regardless, the VXI VRMs look very different. There must be something different.

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Wrote on the subject of Movie Magic - CGI episode w/SGI workstations at Oct. 5, 2009, 8:56 p.m...

Holy crap. Not only do I remember this movie quite well but I remember seeing a lot of that demo CGI footage they showed as well from my collection of CGI demo reels (EG: The Minds Eye series).

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Wrote on the subject of Original SGI list prices... at Oct. 13, 2009, 7:51 a.m...

What about a fully loaded down Personal IRIS 4D/20 with the video system maxed and 64mb of ram and a 700mb hard disk?

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Wrote on the subject of AirPort error -3278 inder OS 9 at Oct. 18, 2009, 7:48 p.m...

I'm trying to get my tangerine iBook to work with my AirPort card under OS 9.2.2 however so long as the card is inserted, the system gives error -3278 when I try to access the utility.
This is my first ever attempt using an AirPort card so I'm totally lost and any help would be appreciated.

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Wrote on the subject of AirPort error -3278 inder OS 9 at Oct. 21, 2009, 1:30 p.m...

It's either that or I try to run 10.2. >_>

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Wrote on the subject of AirPort error -3278 inder OS 9 at Oct. 22, 2009, 2:34 p.m...

iKitsune wrote: Or lee-nooks.

Get Out.
Already tried on this thing and it was a disaster.

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Wrote on the subject of Lets be fair, we know nekonoko´s face, keep them rolling :D at Oct. 23, 2009, 4:52 p.m...

iKitsune is a but tipsy at the moment but I asked him if I should post a photo he sent me of him in front of his rack.

Here's a martini to his Origin 3200.

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Wrote on the subject of Lets be fair, we know nekonoko´s face, keep them rolling :D at Oct. 23, 2009, 6:24 p.m...

iKitsune wrote:

Bite my shiny metal ass.

Told you he had a few too many martinis.

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Wrote on the subject of 4D/240GTX troubleshooting at Oct. 24, 2009, 9:56 p.m...

I was always under the impression that the hard disk liked to be at ID 1, the tape at ID 2 and a cd drive (notably an older Toshiba as the PROM likes them more than other brands) at ID 4.
Also, check your termination for any issues.

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Wrote on the subject of 4D/240GTX troubleshooting at Oct. 25, 2009, 9:58 p.m...

That also happens when you set something to ID 0 which confuses the controller.

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Wrote on the subject of AirPort error -3278 inder OS 9 at Oct. 27, 2009, 6:45 p.m...

Well if I'm reading that right I'm running version 2.0.4 on this system.

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Wrote on the subject of Mystery Crimson VME board at Nov. 4, 2009, 12:45 p.m...

Going from this thread , I bought that strange card that was listed on ebay for the purpose of using the black adapter board but I'm still very curious about the board that came with it.
When it arrived I found out that the two 50-pin connectors were on a second board and there was a red and green LED as well as an 18-pin connector on the main PCB.
I have tried googling up the numbers on the EPROM and the Performance Tech. chip but they got nothing and there is no part number on the board itself. what I do however know is that this DID indeed come from an SGI deskside of some sorts as the part number on the adapter matches up with an adapter board listed on B&B.

Here's some photographs. hopefully it shakes up someones memory on what exactly this is.

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Wrote on the subject of Mystery Crimson VME board at Nov. 4, 2009, 4:45 p.m...

kshuff wrote: Its got a Motorola 68020 processor on it, what are the board part numbers?

That is the problem. there is none, or at least there are none that google is finding.

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Wrote on the subject of Mystery Crimson VME board at Nov. 5, 2009, 5:41 a.m...

I thought HPPI was just another version of FDDI?

I'm totally confused now on it. I'm getting a million acronyms for HPPI (one being "High-Performance Peripheral Interface") and no pictures even remotely close to HPPI-looking (whatever that may be) appear on google images.
Someone please fill me in.

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Wrote on the subject of Mystery Crimson VME board at Nov. 5, 2009, 8:18 a.m...

So I could loosely say it was kinda like Craylink where you were link systems together to make something more powerful?
I'm still a little confused, mostly because I have never heard of it or seen pictures of it being used, ever.

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Wrote on the subject of eBay: Iris Crimson at Nov. 5, 2009, 8:53 a.m...

ajerimez wrote: Yeah, for a system that's probably only good for parts, $250 is a bit much.

Same. That is unless I do the math and assume that the sleds are still worth $60 each, then we total up the four (two assembled and what looks to be two disassembled) sleds in this Crimson and we get four sleds for $240 and to boot a Crimson for $10.

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Wrote on the subject of Mystery Crimson VME board at Nov. 5, 2009, 11:48 a.m...

Thanks. That really helped make me get an understanding of what HPPI is.
speaking of which, I think there is an HPPI board for the Onyx and challenge systems, correct? would anyone have photos of it and/or the bulkheads?

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Wrote on the subject of Show Off Your Home Office Setup & SGI Collection... at Nov. 6, 2009, 4:58 a.m...

Pardon the dust. I'm in the midst of moving computers around so expect that nice monitor to be plugged into something better in the future other than an Indigo.

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Wrote on the subject of Show Off Your Home Office Setup & SGI Collection... at Nov. 7, 2009, 7:32 a.m...

modology wrote:

i reckon u dont need a heater in winter time!!!

The window is open right now and I'm still wearing a t-shirt. O_o

EDIT: Performa? where? only macs I see in the shots are a Q700 (there for the cool factor right now), Q660AV (ditto), LC III (Apple IIe emulation) and a Powermac 9600 (Avid Videoshop among other stuff).

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