<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>
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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 Owen" <<a href="mailto:kylevowen@gmail.com" target="_blank">kylevowen@gmail.com</a>>
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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
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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 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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