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I remember that setup. I think there was more than one model that
was set up that way but I can't remember model designations either.
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I bought a Skywriter (dual head rack-mount 4D system) but never
could get it to work. It has 12 disks, 4 (8?) cpu's, and a gob of
memory... It's also a 220v system.<br>
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Erik, did you like the Indy and Indigo type line?<br>
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Finally found a desktop "tower" system, like PC's, and it has all
the compilers with their optimization capabilities as well, an SGI
"Fuel." Strange name for a computer. I fell in love with the SGI
graphical debugger way back in the mid 80's. :)<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 03/20/2015 06:20 PM, Erik Arendall
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<p dir="ltr">I had a thing for SGI back in the day. I loved the
Onyx systems and the one that was a set of the desktop unit and
the rackmount systems. I can not remember the model name. If I
remember correctly the CPU was in the rack with the ram and HD
and the desk unit was the IO and graphics</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2015 6:12 PM, "david" <<a
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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> I still have 3 or 4 of
them. Gave one 4D system to the shop several years ago.<br>
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<p dir="ltr">I'd love to tinker with some of the SGI
systems of the day. The thought of high performance
computing as well as parallel computing interests me. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Mar 20, 2015 6:05 PM, "Kyle
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Spacewar was before text Startrek on the DEC
PDP's?</div>
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<div>Spacewar! dates to 1962 on the DEC PDP-1,
which predates even Star Trek: TOS. It was
later ported to a few other PDPs, including
the PDP-8 (well, the LAB-8, which had a
point-plot display, a basic requirement for
the game), the PDP-7, PDP-10 and PDP-11, and
other non-DEC systems as well. </div>
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<div>The version I'm assembling on a PDP-8/E was
written sometime in the early 1970s, I
believe. It will be connected to a large
oscilloscope display, and I've already
constructed period controllers for the game.
The goal was to stay with period hardware,
which I'm staying pretty true to. I just got
through fixing the extended math boards
(hardware multiply/divide) last night, as
documented here: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://imgur.com/a/QVRLs"
target="_blank">imgur.com/a/QVRLs</a></div>
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<div>That's a neat story with the Cray YMP. Too
bad you don't still have it. </div>
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