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[david]

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.

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.

Erik, did you like the Indy and Indigo type line?

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.  :)



On 03/20/2015 06:20 PM, Erik Arendall wrote:
>
> 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 
> <mailto:ainut at knology.net>> wrote:
>
>     I still have 3 or 4 of them.  Gave one 4D system to the shop
>     several years ago.
>
>
>
>     On 03/20/2015 06:11 PM, Erik Arendall wrote:
>>
>>     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
>>     <mailto:kylevowen at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>         On Fri, Mar 20, 2015 at 5:40 PM, david <ainut at knology.net
>>         <mailto:ainut at knology.net>> wrote:
>>
>>             Spacewar was before text Startrek on the DEC PDP's?
>>
>>
>>         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.
>>
>>         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 <http://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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