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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of DAT Drive replacement at Aug. 22, 2015, 8:37 p.m...

Something from experience makes me think that if you crack open the drive you might find that the capacitors are those now famous 90's era surface mounts.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of IRIS Crimson skin removal at Aug. 23, 2015, 8:19 p.m...

The Crimson is like the Onyx. The skins have barbed plugs scattered about hat lock into removable black plastic catches on the frame. I simply try to get my fingers around them and pull straight outwards, otherwise the fingers on the catches break and they don't work anymore (but good thing they are removable so they can be replaced and/or shuffled around)

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Covering Indy floptical hole at Aug. 28, 2015, 8:47 a.m...

CAll me crazy but I would look into how hard it would be to shim in a ZIP drive.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of SGI Fuel getting props - "Impressed by a 10 year old computer" at Sept. 20, 2015, 8:38 p.m...

So this is why that guy on 4chan's /g/ was going off saying that the SGI could outperform modern machines with some tasks .

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of SGI Fuel getting props - "Impressed by a 10 year old computer" at Sept. 20, 2015, 9:53 p.m...

You don't need to go there hamei. You won't like what you see.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of PayPal Donation Link Added (plugin requires Prosilver theme) at Sept. 21, 2015, 9:53 a.m...

Sad to see it come to this point Neko.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Email from SGI Support at Oct. 6, 2015, 1:27 a.m...

I got the email too. Logged into the old supportfolio system and it doesn't seem like anything has changed. It's even still complaining that I have several machines registered but none are validated. (because they told me over the phone years ago that I need proof of purchase)

I've gone ahead and contacted SGI's support center here in Canada to see if they can provide an official word on what is happening.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Email from SGI Support at Oct. 6, 2015, 2:26 a.m...

Wowza that was fast.

Hello,

Please try to log in in your account in Supportfolio without changing
anything. If you have access then this email that you received has to be a
mistake.
If you have any additional questions please do not hesitate to email us back.

Kind regards,
SGI Support

Looks like the mail server burped and sent the email to more than one person by accident.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of VRML lives! at Oct. 7, 2015, 8:57 p.m...

This is awesome! This is the true meaning of a masterpiece.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of VRML lives! at Oct. 8, 2015, 8:09 a.m...

I am right now. Also, nice teapot.

I can do the video if you want but it's a bit....heavy on even a 300mhz R5K O2. A couple spots are serious slideshows.

Edited: I managed to put something together. Pardon the audio. It should be live at https://youtu.be/1A3J7G_qv3E sometime after 1PM PST.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Awake at Oct. 16, 2015, 6:11 a.m...

Welcome back Dexter. It's been a while.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of SGI O2 probs... at Oct. 24, 2015, 6:42 p.m...

If you are getting a red LED, no drive activity and nothing from serial port 1 using a null modem cable at 9600, 8, n, 1 I have to tell you at least the worst case scenario.

Between when it was tested and when you turned it on someone pulled the logic board with the machine still plugged in or did not give the PSU a few seconds to discharge before pulling the board. In an O2 this is fatal. You might still have a chance that it's something else but it's not looking good given what you've said so far.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of O2 Vice MPEG2 discovery at Nov. 5, 2015, 2:54 a.m...

I'd five you results as well but my compiler is not playing nice with me.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Apple Power G5 Vs Octane2 (NOISE CHALLENGE) at Nov. 7, 2015, 9:58 p.m...

ivelegacy wrote:

MorphOS (aka Mos) is a lightweight, highly efficient and flexible desktop operating system. It includes primarily proprietary as well as open - source components. Its many features range from a modern exceptionally customizable graphical user interface, which can utilize 3D hardware acceleration, to a high-performance Just-in-Time compiler that emulates the 68k family of processors and thereby allows to transparently execute legacy applications developed for the Commodore Ax00 series of computers. You will find a selection of core components described below

I installed Mos on MDD (PowerMac 2xG4-7450@1.6Ghz): great experience, I envy my friend (the machine is not mine, he asked me to prepare a dual boot, linux/Mos).

It's a nice OS, even if it misses great applications, you "could" find it interesting. It's fast, with a decent filesystem and interface.
Your machine is supported, you only have to check the video card.

Posted just to inform you about the alternative fun

Isn't that the OS made by desperate mouthbreathing basement dwellers who believe that the Amiga still has a place in the market but can't actually afford the licensing fees to use the name AmigaOS?

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Paris at Nov. 14, 2015, 7:38 p.m...

Oskar45 wrote: This is not meant politically. But what occurred there last night should be shocking for everyone of us. It could happen anytime anywhere again. Oh, what an insane world we live in.

I've noticed that if you don't participate in American dickwaving you are not as regularly harassed by rogue nations and perpetually left in a state of paranoia, or just dubbing any incidents "terrorism".

Not that we're really allowed to say that anymore. Just me saying " ISIS are dicks but they still do some pretty cool stuff " is now a federal offense in Canada.
That and disagreeing with the rest of the Western hivemind gets your ass sanctioned to Russia and back.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Adieux at Nov. 29, 2015, 9:52 a.m...

Hamei, nooooo~

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of A new classic ThinkPad? at Nov. 30, 2015, 11:08 a.m...

The era of the Thinkpad has gone and died after IBM spun it off. It goes against Lenovo's ethics to make anything comparable to an IBM product.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of hamei 's departure at Dec. 3, 2015, 12:05 p.m...

uunix wrote: It's been awfully quiet here the last few days? Has everyone gone elsewhere? Was hamei more than 1 person? Is it because Christmas is around the corner?

It's cold outside. We're all running our machines as long as we can while the air conditioning is free.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of 2004! at Dec. 31, 2015, 4:15 p.m...

I-I'm 14 again?

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pentium
From Kamloops, BC
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Wrote on the subject of First power up, Crimson and PowerSeries at Jan. 1, 2016, 2:01 p.m...

I'd also strongly suggest replacing all the 47µF electrolytics (probably Nichicons) strewn about the backplane. These had leaked in my PowerOne and caused it to powercycle erratically, i.e., oscillate several times a second! Do yourself a favour and replace these proactively. See attachments.

Now there is an interesting tidbit. I had noticed the last time I had left the Crimson on it would occasionally lose power to the drive cage and reset everything. Looks like I'll be pulling my PSU as well to inspect this.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of First power up, Crimson and PowerSeries at Jan. 2, 2016, 8:35 a.m...

I had a four channel logger hanging off the power rails. It marked an event every time the voltage dropped below a threshold and used that to see if some sort of trend was forming which as you mentioned it did.

If you don't hear from me again, sorry boys but no rainchecks on my stuff.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of I bought a thing and now my money is gone at Jan. 10, 2016, 8:51 a.m...

Put Softimage on that thing if you can find it. That'll make the RealityEngine flex its muscles.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Why would you ever need SIX HIPPI cards in one Origin? at Jan. 15, 2016, 8:56 a.m...

It has an IO6G installed but nobody has added in a modified video card. What was the point in that? :?:

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of I bought a thing and now my money is gone at Jan. 15, 2016, 8:59 a.m...

MrBill wrote: The crimson is only half of what I have been paying off.
I am scheduled to pick up a couple tezro's along with a crapload of irix software. Among the software is softimage, adobe stuff, and power animator, among a ton of other stuff. Tons of books too.
No sense getting a machine if i do not have the software to run on it.

Oh my god you are just banking out on a haul I've not seen happen around here for years.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Warp 3 to Warp 3 Connect at Jan. 15, 2016, 10:18 a.m...

I've realized that I installed the basic blue spine version of Warp 3 onto my machine which doesn't include network enhancements. I have a copy of Warp 3 Connect but should I be upgrading by installing over the existing install or should I be formatting the partition and starting over?

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of I bought a thing and now my money is gone at Jan. 15, 2016, 4:17 p.m...

Having travelled 3000km round trip to pick ONE HP 7925 disk drive on my last road trip and have the car break down twice in the process, nope, you're par for the course.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Warp 3 to Warp 3 Connect at Jan. 15, 2016, 4:21 p.m...

Oh it's a separate installer. Awesome. I can try that.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of What pointless thing are you doing right now? at Jan. 16, 2016, 6:10 p.m...

Contemplating getting out of bed.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of IBM PowerPC 405GP Remote Supervisor Adapter at Jan. 18, 2016, 8:35 a.m...

I know for a fact that it or one of its relatives plug into my x220 server. The software is out there but there's a ribbon cable that needs to run form the card to the board.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of IBM 6091 Monitor at Jan. 24, 2016, 8:30 a.m...

In case you're on the west coast.......I'm not 100% happy with matching a P201 with my PS/2. These monitors look a lot more suited for the model 95 workstations. I'm willing to pay or you're really close enough I can also trade you my P201 in a swap deal.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of IBM 6091 Monitor at Jan. 24, 2016, 8:17 p.m...

29" what in the....

You got a photograph of that? :shock:

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of [BYTE 1993] Some Indy for you! at Feb. 2, 2016, 3:14 p.m...

I love reading these old computer magazines. Just reading up on the wacky stuff that you used to get for your machines. This particular issues has a two-page piece on Windows Accelerator Cards. :lol:

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of I'm going fiber at Feb. 2, 2016, 3:20 p.m...

I'm still swimming in those damn AUI to ST fiber transceivers. I don't think I'll ever build anything practical out of this arrangement unless I get a much larger 100base FX switch and some sensible pre-terminated lengths of fiber.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of What pointless thing are you doing right now? at Feb. 4, 2016, 3:03 a.m...

Playing the multitrack version of Bohemian Rhapsody with the Freddy track passing through the "demonic" filter.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Good Heavens the LaserWriter IIg is complex! at Feb. 4, 2016, 9:35 a.m...

Like, I understand that it's doing PostScript 2 and PCL4 locally in hardware, plus the dedicated SCSI, network and serial chipsets are there because it's the IIg but I never really really realized just how beefy it actually was until I pulled the board out for decapping.

Christ almighty. It's a 25mhz 68030 with some form of a PDS slot AND there's a spot for a 68882. :shock:

You put 32mb of ram in that and you're up there with a really decent Macintosh IIci in terms of hardware. The layout is even amazing. X/Y locations, component numbering and verbose IC identification. I really give props to the team that designed this.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Good Heavens the LaserWriter IIg is complex! at Feb. 4, 2016, 11:05 a.m...

Well in one form or another it's PDS. There's literally a ton of traces leaving the 030 and heading for the connector.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of VCF West is happening this August at Feb. 6, 2016, 7:38 a.m...

VCF Website wrote: When:

August 6-7, 2016

Where:

Computer History Museum, 1401 N. Shoreline Blvd., Mountain View, California (SGI's old place! )

What:

Exhibits (and exhibit registration) — Hands-on exhibits are presented Saturday and Sunday. You’ll find demos of 1960s minicomputers, 1970s homebrew systems, 1980s eight-bitters, and a few oddities. Some exhibits contain pristine original machines, while others focus on unique modern hacks, and everything in between.

Keynotes — Come see our impressive keynote speakers! Check back soon for details…

Consignment — Vintage Computer Festivals are not flea/swap events, however we do offer a consignment room. Complete a system form and we’ll try our best to sell your on-topic items. Our fee is 15% of final sales.

Vendors — Do you work for a business that may interest our audience? If so, then you may qualify for a professional vendor booth.

Food — Where they are computer nerds, there must be food! Items such as bagels, muffins, coffee, snacks, hot dogs, soft drinks, etc. will be available.

Don’t forget — CHM is the world’s best computer museum, and it will be fully open during VCF West. Do not miss your chance to see their incredible exhibits.

Tickets:

Ticket details will be posted soon.

More info should pop up on their website soon.

If memory serves, there has not been a festival on the west coast for close to ten years. It's been a long time. There's a lot of people currently excited over this.
I wanted to go back to Tokyo again this summer......but with some persuasion I could instead reserve a booth there myself and see if I can be The SGI Guy . I got a number of old enough machines and software I can demonstrate plus some interesting peripherals. It's just....expensive. Man, ignoring the 3000km or so it takes to get there, back when the CAD was at parity in 2013 it cost me $1000 alone in gas there and back with an empty car. I dare guess what would happen once we throw in an Onyx, 4D/20, Indy, Indigo, a PS/2 and all the monitors and peripherals...... :shock:

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of archive.org -- SGI Software Library at Feb. 7, 2016, 4:51 a.m...

Archive.org being who they are, my assumption is they did their homework before going public on this otherwise they would of received at least one DMCA takedown notification by now, especially now that it's posted here and in the past SGI kept tabs on what we were doing.

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of archive.org -- SGI Software Library at Feb. 8, 2016, 8:07 a.m...

Krokodil wrote:

pentium wrote: and in the past SGI kept tabs on what we were doing.

How thoughtful of them, eh?

I remember a particular time years ago, forget who it was, but they found that if they ran a cron fsck on an XFS volume in a particular configuration the machine locked solid almost on cue. I believe someone posted that they (SGI) were notified of the issue through the forums and not long after they released a patch for it.

Not a recent incident, but they are watching......

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pentium
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Wrote on the subject of Archiving CDROM images at Feb. 8, 2016, 9:53 p.m...

I've always dumped to raw disk images using dd. You can burn them back to disc with programs like xcdroast or any other burning utility that supports raw images.

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