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sgifanatic

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Hello All,

I posted a fairly lengthy introduction a couple of days ago that appears to have vanished.

I'll keep it short this time. I'm new here, but I've been an avid collected for some years, focused mainly on SGI systems. I've done several projects over the years, hardware and software, that I had partially listed in my previous note. I guess we'll see if this one makes it through before I list all that content again.

Looking forward to making new friends and learning from you all!
 
Thank you! Glad to see the post showed up.

I also wanted to share quick descriptions of a few of my past projects:

IRIS Indigo Reborn
Recreation of the SGI Indigo in a metal chassis using quad ARM based boards
Nekochan thread detailing project evolution: http://forums.nekochan.net/viewtopic...+indigo+reborn
YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmkX...kp_b4-xae01z8g

I've also started rediscovering a few of the DOS/Turbo C, BASIC and Assembly programs I wrote while I was in my teens. A few (poorly done) YouTube videos demo'ing a subset:

Interflex 1.5 -- The offline web - GUI for DOS to enable internet access via UUCP offline networks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9XFG8pT8oko
Demo of a Two-player Cricket game I wrote in BASIC - '93: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBWNWr678hg
A sprite animator in x86 assembler - '94: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGO9HQ2jeaU
Lift World - Fuzzy Logic based Lift Controller simulation I built in DOS - 1994: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofvC4IUr9f8

Hope to make new friends and learn from you all!
 
Welcome to the forums! I am a big SGI collector too.
Wanted to watch your YouTube video but the link is pointing to a non-existing video...
 
I had an SGI O2 for a while and it was fun to play with. But the hard drive kept dying and it's not that easy to find replacement scsi drives so I sold it last year. Kind of wish I kept it though...
 
amadama said:
Wow, fantastic machine! I read you thread over at Nekochan. Great work with the case and entire system.
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Thank you very much for your appreciation! It was a labor of love. I built three chassis, but finished out only one. I am thinking of what to do with the other two.
 
bslingard said:
I had an SGI O2 for a while and it was fun to play with. But the hard drive kept dying and it's not that easy to find replacement scsi drives so I sold it last year. Kind of wish I kept it though...
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Oh nooooo! They are special. I understand it must have been frustrating finding drives, but I usually look at replacement SCSI drives from older Dell poweredge servers. They are the kind you need and because there were a gazillion of those Dell servers sold, they are usually easier to come by.
 
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