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Doc Block posted:I have an SGI Octane in storage. Thanks to the Internet Archive, I was able to find the pics I took of it back in 2003. Here's the whole setup, including SGI-branded Sony Trinitron monitor i threw out two octanes two years ago and i regret it. daddies, hug ur boxen tight. don't let them go.
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 this is the computer i had as a childe. a tandy tl1000. it was pretty cool. i can still remember the smell of the milky transparent plastic keyboard cover, which had just enough ball point pen markings on it to let you know someone hosed up. it had a lot of cool programs. there was a music composition program that took approximately 10 minutes to load. there was a word processing program that i used to type up school assignments. there was an art program that made spiralgraph things, and you could print out banners on the dot matrix. fast forward to present day, as a 30 year old adult i have met one of the loathesome men responsible for creating the tandy tl1000. he works at the place i work and his teeth look like he eats plaque for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks. he doesn't shut the gently caress up about tandy and now i can't think of my cherished childhood memories of playing some math game i can't remember the name of without a sense memory of this troglodite's foul breath flooding my nostrils. haha this brings back so many now ruined fond memories 
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Jan 12, 2016 03:49
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i think i also threw out a full IRIX 6.5 install set. that doesn't sound like something i'd do, because i'd been looking for a full IRIX cd set for a decade prior, but damned if i can't find it now.
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Jan 12, 2016 04:02
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yeah i unlocked an indy circa 2002 using an overlay ISO that i talked some into sending me on IRC. when i cared enough to do it, finding the full install set online was impossible, legit sets on ebay were prohibitively expensive. oh well. the unlocked indy, most of the apps weren't installed locally so it turned out to be a huge waste of time anyways. FFWD to 2012, i picked up 2x octanes and 2x indies from someone off nekochan for free, and he gave me a full install set. after sitting in my living room for a few months i got really skeez'd out about having HDD's sitting in my house that formerly belonged to someone on nekochan, pot kettle i know whatever, and chucked them.
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Jan 12, 2016 04:09
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i called SGI, when i got the indy's, to ask about getting a copy of IRIX. the lady said i'd need a support contract. i forget the exact cost for 1 year of support, but i think it was $30k.
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Jan 12, 2016 04:10
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insert jammer in hole 2 down 4 across from back to pop those bad boys open
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Jan 12, 2016 05:42
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moosemanmoo posted:did the hardware engineers just really not consider or care about things like variable rpm fans w/ ambient temperature sensors? it's not like they weren't making a stupidly expensive vertically integrated product I seem to remember 13W3 repeaters and keyboard cable extender cables being a thing
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Jan 13, 2016 17:36
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I used an Ultra 60 on a daily basis for about 3 years, it was pretty loud. At the time however, everything was loud. You just kind of expected a computer to be a loud thing that helped you get work done, like a wood chipper. It wasn't uncomfortable to be around, it was actually nice in a way. the noise masked ambient conversation mumbles really well. i hear some offices pump in artificially created pink noise to produce the same effect.
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Jan 13, 2016 17:40
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when you spend $30k on a workstation, you want the fan blaring full speed. if the CPU drops below %100 usage ur face gets hot.
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Jan 14, 2016 00:56
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if a loud super-expensive unix workstation seems weird, that's because you're thinking of it in the context of a home where it is weird. imagine walking into someone's kitchen and seeing a 200 liter industrial mixer, kind of the same thing. recently the line between "professional" grade and "consumer" grade computer equipment has been blurred, but it still exists in computing and other industries.
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Jan 14, 2016 01:06
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i need to get a whiteboard to work this out. so many parts that could fit together somehow. sliderule branded "POST", slidrules calculate logs, poo poo comes in logs, poo poo logs from a post slide rule... gently caress
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Jan 14, 2016 16:16
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Doc Block posted:Hopefully the NVRAM battery isn't dead. What a brilliant idea to store hardware information required for licensing etc. in battery-backed RAM instead of an EEPROM or flash. Will SGI machines even boot if the NVRAM is dead? Never mind that the battery is actually buried inside the NVRAM so it's non-replaceable.  that its lovely for people that have them now, but SGI probably liked it. they probably wouldn't let that be a problem for people with support contracts, but they don't gain anything by us playing with these machines today.
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Jan 17, 2016 16:08
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Sniep posted:from the flashbacks of my stepdad yelling at me to get off the phone line, he needs to send a fax "god drat it"
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Jan 19, 2016 02:28
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i romanticize old computes because i feel like i can understand them better. i've been messing around with qemu, writing real-mode x86 assembly. that sort of thing is easy to wrap my mind around, and the only part that i don't really understand is the bios firmware. doing graphics stuff on top of a modern OS, there's so many layers of poo poo between the code i write and how it gets popped up on the screen, i have a hard time imagining any single person understanding how every piece works. anyways i'd like to find a small cheap x86 SBC with well documented hardware. qemu is great and all, and i'd never get anywhere developing x86 asm without qemu+gdb, but it'd be cool to see the code run on an actual computer.
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Jan 29, 2016 18:40
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one of my favorite computers, the HP 50g graphing calculator. it came out ten years ago, so its not "old" in an age sense, but its old in usefulness. why would you use this thing if you have a modern computer? i don't have a good reason for you other than :sperg: anyways, this thing is sick. look at the features this bad boy boasts,
 they're discontinued now, and really undervalued in my opinion. $57 fuckin dollars, i bought a backup one just now http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000GTPRPS
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Jan 30, 2016 18:09
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yeah a hp50g with the enter key in the right place and the right kind of keys and hp48sx style case would have been too perfect for this world. while i'm calc sperging, the hp 35s is a very good calculator, and is actually a lot more usable than the 50g. its keys feel nice, its enter key is in the correct position, and it also comes in a case that lets everyone know just how much of a dork you are.
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Jan 30, 2016 18:18
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i had a car then, no one wanted to hang out, almost never used it. everyone was inside playing video games. so, you made the correct choice.
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Feb 1, 2016 16:26
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does anyone remember that guy that got sent to prison for stealing a some teletype consoles and other ancient equipment that he was obsessed with? iirc he blamed it on his room mate. his website was great i wish i could remember enough about it to search for it
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Feb 4, 2016 21:57
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Sweevo posted:this guy? yeah thanks! his story was a lot less believable the last time i read it. now, i don't know. it seems plausible that someone stole a bunch of poo poo and put it in his apartment, and he took the fall for it. its however strange that the things stolen were late 70's era terminals, and his house present day is still littered with late 70's era terminals.
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Feb 4, 2016 23:38
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Silver Alicorn posted:I coulda had a jaguar for $20 at KB Toys. yeah the local kb toys had several of those, forgotten, up on top of the shelf behind a checkout well into '98, until i assume the employees stole them or threw them in the dumpster. what a turd
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Feb 5, 2016 02:06
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if you want a jaguar shell just go to a hospital and steal the machine that gives extra-strength enemas -- same exact case.
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i remember popping open the rf modulator of my atari 2600 and seeing loosely curled blue-wire acting as the inductors, so yeah my bet is that they are just made with crappy components
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