#sgi — Public Fediverse posts
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actual SGI O2 owners with experience in O2 boards:
one of the infamous problems the O2 has involves the machine "frying" when the board/backplane is removed while the machine is plugged in.
i've never seen an electrical explanation of which components fail when this happens, and if the machine can be resuscitated by replacing specified SMD components on the logic board
i picked up a dead O2 a few years ago, which *seems* to exhibit the classic signs of pulled-board syndrome. (fan blips once on power toggle, doesn't spin fully, and machine never makes it to POST). rather than seeing this turned into e-waste or spare parts, i'd like to rebuild it.
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The result of my weekend woodworking project: a desk deep enough to park some vintage computers in my office.
#sgi #siliconGraphics #atari #atariFalcon #68030 #1990s #retrocomputing -
@mbbrutman Nice! Reminds me of the SGI O2Cam / MooseCam on my O2.
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This is a rare in depth video of the SGI O2 being used by an actual VFX artist. It's the first in a series that I'm very excited for.
The O2 has always been my favorite SGI workstation, ever since I discovered it as a teenager, in the pages of PC Magazine. It was powerful AND beautiful!
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Compositing with Avid Media Illusion on a Silicon Graphics O2 from 1996 | SGI | Retro VFX // Hugo's Desk
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@gloriouscow I have an O2. I set out to get an Indy, but got an O2. The O2 is cool, but everything I've used it for I could've done more cheaply and quietly and in less space with an Indy. Maybe get an Indy.
Right now the O2 system is on the shelf because I needed space for an Apple IIe.
Here's a gallery of my O2 in its various settings: https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72157604335087061/
#SGI #SGIO2 #O2 #O2Workstation #IRIX #UNIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #retrocomputers #workstation #computers #tech #vintagetech
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Jurassic Park Computers in EXCRUCIATING DETAIL
https://fabiensanglard.net/jurrasic_park_computers/index.html
#UNIX #IKNOWTHIS #SGI #Sun #Mac #Workstations #movies #films #JurassicPark #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #computinghistory #tech #vintagetech #entertainment #blog #photo #nineties
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[Перевод] Всё о компьютерах в фильме «Парк юрского периода»
Рассказав недавно историю про «Парк юрского периода», я захотел пересмотреть этот фильм снова. Наверно, я уже видел его раз десять. На этот раз я решил изучить все компьютеры и ПО из этого фильма.
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What's this? The #VirtualOSmuseum includes #SGI #Irix? Ooh shiny! I didn't think there were any working emulators. Now downloading so I can pick it apart and see how it does it, and then replicate without the extra gigabytes of baggage. And then I shall install my favourite #compiler EVAR, #MIPSPro, which I affectionately call a complier, not a compiler, because it really led the field in whining about bad non-standard C.
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@flexion Nice!!
All I got is GIMP on my O2. 🙂
#SGI #IRIX #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #screenshot #OS #UNIX #GIMP #PhotoShop
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator
Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖
Hey Retro Fans!
While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:
Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!
This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.
A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
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#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #ncsa #mosaic #ncsamosaic #sun #sparcstation #sgi #unix
Catch of the Day: The Forefather of the World Wide Web! 🏛️🕸️
Hey Retro Fans!
Hold your breath and bow in reverence. Today, our FrogFind radar didn't just catch an old browser; it caught the absolute foundation of the modern internet. Between all the Nintendos and dusty Windows PCs, this gigantic milestone appeared:
NCSA Mosaic 2.7b5 on UNIX (X11)!
For those who weren't online in the early 90s: Mosaic, developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), was the first web browser that could display images inline next to text (rather than in a separate window). Starting in 1993, it was the spark that made the World Wide Web appealing to the masses! The Mosaic team later went on to found Netscape, and even Microsoft's first Internet Explorer was based on licensed Mosaic code.
The fact that today, in 2026, someone boots up a UNIX machine (perhaps an old Sun SPARCstation or an SGI) and navigates our frog pond using the final beta version of NCSA Mosaic (from around 1996) is like operating a working time machine. It proves one thing: True HTML survives decades.
A reverent cheer to the pioneers of the internet!
Your FrogFind Team 🐸
