jan-jaap wrote: Yeah, that must have been a big seller. I wonder what that 'E' is for
'E'du discounts were fairly deep, especially on software. They weren't always listed that way, but the Varsity program would also get its price published.
The collected works of robespierre - Page 15
'E'du discounts were fairly deep, especially on software. They weren't always listed that way, but the Varsity program would also get its price published.
even pulled the EPROM I see. anything that could be yanked with a pair of pliers.
wow, some nice stuff there.
That Indi 5000 is a very rare KVM switch specifically for SGI workstations.
That Indi 5000 is a very rare KVM switch specifically for SGI workstations.
developers developers developers!
rodinal and ID-11 and microdol and diafine!
rodinal and ID-11 and microdol and diafine!
There is no reason for the supported resolutions to be different if only mirroring is taking place.
StorNext 3.5.x supports IRIX and was available on 6.5.30. Support ended mid-2014.
Sounds like Friday the 13th is bad luck!
MXE and EMXI are exactly the same. They are just the marketing designation and the manufacturing name for the same board.
Apple seems to be the only company whose capacitors all leak. (It doesn't happen at all on NeXT computers, or Suns, or SGIs...)
It seems they used a harsher post-solder cleaning regimen that was destructive to the rubber seals of the capacitors.
There is no general problem with SMD capacitors leaking. You can replace them with direct substitutes.
It seems they used a harsher post-solder cleaning regimen that was destructive to the rubber seals of the capacitors.
There is no general problem with SMD capacitors leaking. You can replace them with direct substitutes.
I've seen it happen in LC 475s and Quadra 840AVs. They eventually fixed whatever they were doing, but it wasn't until about 1995.
It can be a struggle finding CDROM drives that they can boot from; I had good luck with Toshiba XM-4101B, and the notes on the
Sun compatible CD-ROM page
should mostly also apply.
The DEC RZ drives are all sufficiently old that their bearings are likely to be shot. I don't think any of them were new enough to have hydrodynamic bearings.
The DEC RZ drives are all sufficiently old that their bearings are likely to be shot. I don't think any of them were new enough to have hydrodynamic bearings.
>>> SHOW CONFIG should tell you the firmware version (there are two, a serial ROM and a Flash ROM firmware). Only the Flash ROM can be updated, but I don't think that's usually a problem. Mainly it just has to allow the OS bootstrap to load.
The CDROM images are Rock Ridge format, but they contain a UFS disklabel, as well, which is required.
The CDROM images are Rock Ridge format, but they contain a UFS disklabel, as well, which is required.
Not sure if this is the right topic, but I can't figure out what this means:
Indigo2 IMPACT Product Guide
I have never seen another reference to the Mindshare Bundle anywhere, and according to Google it appears nowhere else. (Now it will appear here too, so goodbye Googlewhack.) Any ideas?
Indigo2 IMPACT Product Guide
Live Video:
- Expansion port supports Indigo2 Mindshare Bundle , Indigo2 IMPACT Video, Indigo2 IMPACT Channel Option, or Indigo2 Presenter
I have never seen another reference to the Mindshare Bundle anywhere, and according to Google it appears nowhere else. (Now it will appear here too, so goodbye Googlewhack.) Any ideas?
Styrofoam peanuts cannot shift when the box is filled to 110% with them. The whole reason for the peanut shape is to prevent shifting when it's properly used, since the surfaces of each piece interlock against the others. They are ineffective when improperly used.
"You aren't going to get a custom o2 or fuel styrofoam mold": Just buy Instapak bags.
"You aren't going to get a custom o2 or fuel styrofoam mold": Just buy Instapak bags.
It's a virtual planetoid!
Wow!
Is that a version of EIAS from Mac-only days? Very impressive.
Is that a version of EIAS from Mac-only days? Very impressive.
SiliconClassics wrote: Yep, that's ElectricImage version 2.9. Really fast renderer but it didn't have built-in modeling so it was never a complete package. Still kind of cool to have though.
EI (or was it ZaxWerks?) recommended FormZ as a modeling application. Although I think some used Amapi for organic shapes.
You can smooth the surface using a bath of acetone vapor (for ABS). Smoothing PLA is also possible, but requires solvents that you really don't want in your living space, so should only be performed outside or in a fume hood.
I linked a 1hr video in this thread:
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16730776#p7390837
Maybe it misses some of the most basic things like how the displayports and the mouse works.
viewtopic.php?f=10&t=16730776#p7390837
Maybe it misses some of the most basic things like how the displayports and the mouse works.
SHA-1 is a message digest function, not a cipher. The integrity of the code (buffer overflows etc) is far more important for a program like openssh (and there have been a lot of bugs in that area)
Vessel for screwdrivers, Keiba for flush cutters.
Craftsman used to be very good. Their "Flying V" wrenches were really strong. I mostly get by with old Proto and Plomb wrenches, or the cheap stuff (Gearwrench). Not needed often enough to wear them out.
Craftsman used to be very good. Their "Flying V" wrenches were really strong. I mostly get by with old Proto and Plomb wrenches, or the cheap stuff (Gearwrench). Not needed often enough to wear them out.
Much of this package was developed at Triple-I in Culver City, who did the port from Symbolics to SGI. Franz Inc also contributed (it uses Allegro CL, as well as other custom code). It was then acquired by Nichimen (a general trading company) in the wave of Japanese acquisitions (Columbia pictures, Rockefeller Center, etc) in the '80s and '90s. After a few years they got out of the software business and spun off Winged Edge Software, which renamed itself Izware.
Another "unusual" acquisition in the graphics industry was the Japanese heavy machinery maker Kubota and their ownership of
Ardent and Stellar (Stardent)
. The last product from this group was the Denali TurboChannel board for the DEC 3000.
tomvos wrote: By the way, is it only me, or are these coloured buttons something you would like to see making a reappearance in todays software? Somehow I feel feed up with sleek uniform mono-coloured user interfaces.
It looks like the interface was done manually using XLib calls from the CLX library.
Y888099 wrote: That's interesting! Which Power8 ATX board ? Where can you get it?
The Tyan BP010 and BP012 are available from http://www.advancedhpc.com for around $4k (note that I have not done business with them and do not know if they are in stock or not).
1. The NVRAM itself doesn't usually fail on these systems, but the lithium battery that powers the NVRAM and calendar clock. If you go into the PROM monitor and type "resetenv" usually it will work again until the next time you unplug the power cable.
2. The Indigo2 uses narrow fast single-ended SCSI-2. It has two types of "sled" in which the drives are mounted. These sleds slide into the chassis and plug into the SCSI backplane. Without a sled, you can still connect external drives using standard 50-pin "HD50" cables. Faster Ultra-SCSI drives will also work and are typically quieter than the original kit.
3. The processor board may have been changed, but the model number can tell you the factory configuration. For instance, if it is "CMB007Yxx", you have a R4400, the xx is half the clock speed. So "75": 150 Mhz, "100": 200 MHz, "125": 250 MHz.
4. Teal is just the case color. The main board in a R4xxx machine (called IP22) is compatible with all of the R4xxx processors, and with power supply and midplane upgrades can use any of the graphics cards. Your machine might already have them, and it's easy to take the cover off to see.
2. The Indigo2 uses narrow fast single-ended SCSI-2. It has two types of "sled" in which the drives are mounted. These sleds slide into the chassis and plug into the SCSI backplane. Without a sled, you can still connect external drives using standard 50-pin "HD50" cables. Faster Ultra-SCSI drives will also work and are typically quieter than the original kit.
3. The processor board may have been changed, but the model number can tell you the factory configuration. For instance, if it is "CMB007Yxx", you have a R4400, the xx is half the clock speed. So "75": 150 Mhz, "100": 200 MHz, "125": 250 MHz.
4. Teal is just the case color. The main board in a R4xxx machine (called IP22) is compatible with all of the R4xxx processors, and with power supply and midplane upgrades can use any of the graphics cards. Your machine might already have them, and it's easy to take the cover off to see.
Have you posted to cctalk? That strikes me as being a group more interested in real rarities (the CHM doesn't even list a VS100 in its catalog).
May the circle be unbroken!
"high res" probably means 1280x1024. 1152x900 would be standard res on a Sun. I believe the only support for 1600x1200 until the late '90s was in ECL monochrome.
escimo wrote:Code: Select all
Product ; Bus ; Resolution ; Freq_H ; Freq_V
----------------;-------;-------------;-----------;--------
Sun TurboGXplus ; SBus ; 1600 * 1280 ; 101.8 kHz ; 76 Hz
Sun CG14 4/8MB ; VSIMM ; 1600 * 1280 ; <?> ; 66 Hz
Good catch! The cards for Ultras were the ones I was implying by "late '90s", but I had forgotten the SX could do it too.
Elf wrote: A somewhat lengthy explanation here (from cinema, where they spend lots of money on LEDs but don't always get the results they want vs. tungsten or kino flos, etc.): http://www.screenlightandgrip.com/html/LED_Lights.html
Interesting link! I started to get a little bit disturbed by the universal mis-spelling of the word luminaires—over-zealous spellcheck?
SparcStation Classic X? NC900?
The OS was basically the same, but the BeBox had some special peripherals ("GeekPort") and always booted directly from OpenFirmware. On The PowerMac, you could boot from a launcher application on the Mac side, like you could for MkLinux.
miod wrote: From ROM, rather. There was no OpenFirmware on BeBoxens.
Hmm, weird. I always thought they were PReP/CHRP machines.
DEC architectures were mostly all little-endian. The PDP-11 was strange because it was little-endian for 16-bit words, but stored doublewords as two words in big-endian order. That was DEC's first (IIRC) byte-addressed machine; the VAX and Alpha were consistently little-endian.
The Alpha VLM does make calls to Mach traps, but I don't know whether it uses them explicitly or whether they are just part of the C library. MIPS and Alpha are similar enough that a direct translation may be possible, modulo Mach issues. The Linux port obviously doesn't use Mach, but as far as I know the source is not on the Internet.
The Alpha VLM does make calls to Mach traps, but I don't know whether it uses them explicitly or whether they are just part of the C library. MIPS and Alpha are similar enough that a direct translation may be possible, modulo Mach issues. The Linux port obviously doesn't use Mach, but as far as I know the source is not on the Internet.
The name Nikkō (日光) was already used by the company as an abbreviation of Nippon Kōgaku (日本光学), long before the introduction of the Nikon brand, and the new trademark was created by adding the suffix "-r", common for lens names.
The Anytar 12cm f/4.5 lens was consequently renamed Nikkor in 1932.
http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Nippon_Kōga ... efore_1945
I fortunately have never needed to take painkillers. I get a lot of scrapes and cuts, but the pain hasn't bothered me much.
How did you find the kratom? I guess it's used like coca leaf, hold it in your cheek with a pinch of lime?
How did you find the kratom? I guess it's used like coca leaf, hold it in your cheek with a pinch of lime?
Y888099 wrote: The MIPS's ISA makes easier to introduce your own defined COP (COP0 is reserved as Exception, COP1 is reserved as FPU) than on other RISCs.
This capability is used by the Tensilica cores to add reconfigurable logic to the ISA. Much more elegant than anything Altera or Xilinx has come out with in their SoCs.
The Motorola 88K also had a block of coprocessor instructions, but that architecture was never used nearly as widely as MIPS (being fabless is a big advantage for not competing with your customers in ISA licensing)
I suddenly remembered this thread just now. Last week I read a fascinating article about what is evidently the most complicated watch ever built.
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-v ... ence-57260
The funny thing is that for certain people, all of the 27 special features could actually be useful. I suppose this is to be expected, since it was done as a bespoke project (although the latest rumor is that five pieces were made and you could buy one if you don't mind the price).
https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/the-v ... ence-57260
The funny thing is that for certain people, all of the 27 special features could actually be useful. I suppose this is to be expected, since it was done as a bespoke project (although the latest rumor is that five pieces were made and you could buy one if you don't mind the price).
When sellers could leave negative feedback for buyers, it was possible for a 0-feedback buyer to get a negative feedback score.
In principle it's still possible for a 0-feedback seller to get negative feedback and have their score go negative.
More common is a requirement to have at least +10 feedback, but I don't know if that's still allowed after all the weird rule changes.
In principle it's still possible for a 0-feedback seller to get negative feedback and have their score go negative.
More common is a requirement to have at least +10 feedback, but I don't know if that's still allowed after all the weird rule changes.