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Newport Graphics it is. #sgi #silicongraphics #retrohardware

Another day, another 30 year old computer getting in on the IPv6 action. This time it's an SGI O2 running IRIX 6.5.

It only took me a few hours to setup a network installation server for the software and remember how to use inst and find the right systune but hey, now we're golden. :sgi:​

(Install eoe.sw.ipv6, reboot, systune ip6_enable 1, reboot)

#IRIX #SiliconGraphics #IPv6

I got bored of trying to make AppleTalk sing and dance on Windows NT and 2000 so I switched to an OS with a good native implementation: IRIX. :sgi:​

#GlobalTalk #MARCHintosh #SiliconGraphics #SGI #IRIX #AppleTalk #AUNIXSystemIKnowThis

OpenBSD on SGI: a rollercoaster story, as told by miod@ https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20260305143943 #openbsd #sgi #silicongraphics #development #hacking #freesoftware #libresoftware

This was a delightful read, tech is still cool from time to time, if you know where to look and no money is involved.

Which is another way of saying, if you have some spare time you could also spend your evening reading a blog post about decompiling Silicon Graphics' PROMs. This is fedi's bread and butter.

https://mattst88.com/blog/2026/02/08/Reverse_Engineering_the_PROM_for_the_SGI_O2/

#SiliconGraphics #SGI #ReverseEngineering

Does anyone else remember wearing one of these in the early to mid 90s?

I only got to wear one once, at Epcot Center. I got the chance to explore some Egyptian tomb and it got me hooked on VR ever since.

#SGI #SiliconGraphics #RealityEngine #RealityEngine2 #EpcotCenter #VirtualReality #VR #90sNostalgia #90s #DisneyWorld #Epcot #Imagineering #Imagineer #SGIOnyx

Does anyone else remember wearing one of these in the early to mid 90s?

I only got to wear one once, at Epcot Center. I got the chance to explore some Egyptian tomb and it got me hooked on VR ever since.

#SGI #SiliconGraphics #RealityEngine #RealityEngine2 #EpcotCenter #VirtualReality #VR #90sNostalgia #90s #DisneyWorld #Epcot #Imagineering #Imagineer #SGIOnyx

Does anyone else remember wearing one of these in the early to mid 90s?

I only got to wear one once, at Epcot Center. I got the chance to explore some Egyptian tomb and it got me hooked on VR ever since.

#SGI #SiliconGraphics #RealityEngine #RealityEngine2 #EpcotCenter #VirtualReality #VR #90sNostalgia #90s #DisneyWorld #Epcot #Imagineering #Imagineer #SGIOnyx

Does anyone else remember wearing one of these in the early to mid 90s?

I only got to wear one once, at Epcot Center. I got the chance to explore some Egyptian tomb and it got me hooked on VR ever since.

#SGI #SiliconGraphics #RealityEngine #RealityEngine2 #EpcotCenter #VirtualReality #VR #90sNostalgia #90s #DisneyWorld #Epcot #Imagineering #Imagineer #SGIOnyx

Does anyone else remember wearing one of these in the early to mid 90s?

I only got to wear one once, at Epcot Center. I got the chance to explore some Egyptian tomb and it got me hooked on VR ever since.

#SGI #SiliconGraphics #RealityEngine #RealityEngine2 #EpcotCenter #VirtualReality #VR #90sNostalgia #90s #DisneyWorld #Epcot #Imagineering #Imagineer #SGIOnyx

Neu im Blog: Ein technischer Rückblick auf die SGI Indigo. Teil 1 & 2 der kleinen Mini-Serie

#sgi #indigo #silicongraphics #mips

https://www.retrocomputer-dresden.de/SGI-Indigo/

Silicon Graphics defined high-performance computing for visual effects and 3D graphics in the 90s. Their workstations powered CGI in Jurassic Park and Terminator 2, and they helped pioneer OpenGL, still a standard in graphics today.

Now barely a memory, only its website survives; 1 in a Trillion on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/19970601000000*/http://www.sgi.com/

#WaybackMachine #SiliconGraphics #CGI #TechHistory #3DGraphics

And now I wonder how hard it could be to patch a 68K silicon graphics IRIS 3000 to run classic mac os. I doubt I'll have time in my lifetime to look into that, but still making QuickDraw work with a bitplane graphic adapter would be interesting…

#retrocomputing #68k #classicmac #silicongraphics

My #introduction to #Linux.

I was blown away by the #Battlezone clone #bz on cool #SiliconGraphics machines (with HUGE monitors) at university. That was my first indication that there was a world out there beyond #DOS and #Windows.

One day, I bought #Caldera #OpenLinux 2.2 from #FutureShop. And I could play #BZFlag! It was amazing - but something didn't work. Maybe sound? I forget.

Years later, I tried #Mandrake 9.0. I used it solidly until I discovered #Ubuntu. The rest is history.