[ML-General] BBS The Documentary

[Erik Arendall]

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
On Mar 20, 2015 6:12 PM, "david" <ainut at knology.net> wrote:

>  I still have 3 or 4 of them.  Gave one 4D system to the shop several
> years ago.
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> On 03/20/2015 06:11 PM, Erik Arendall wrote:
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> 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.
> On Mar 20, 2015 6:05 PM, "Kyle Owen" <kylevowen at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>  On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:40 PM, david <ainut at knology.net> wrote:
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>>>  Spacewar was before text Startrek on the DEC PDP's?
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>>  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.
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>>  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: imgur.com/a/QVRLs
>>
>>  That's a neat story with the Cray YMP. Too bad you don't still have it.
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