On Tue, 19 Apr 2016, Jules Richardson wrote: > Ditto. I do like mine. Extra TRAM option, 384MB of RAM, 2x4GB disks. It > gets a little toasty (but it's got the feet for standing it up on its > side, and I think that helps a little with the heat dissipation - plus it > looks a lot nicer! :-)
I hope you have the deskside stand for it. That made them look a bit cooler. Hmm. It's the kind of thing that could probably be 3D printed these days, too. While I'm rambling about 3D printing, I've often speculated that with a not-insignificant investment of time, one could built new skins for the Indy on some larger 3D printers. > I'm not sure if there was a 'correct' display/keyboard/rodent setup on > those machines? Mine came with a white keyboard and mouse but granite > display, and I assume that they should really all be matched. Granite in most cases. The Indigo2 had a longer run than many SGI models. Plus, since there was also a lot of differentiation in models (everything from XL24 graphics to Maximum IMPACT graphics, too), there might have been more than one. I remember seeing a few show up brand-new (deep-purple Max Impact models) and they came with 21" Trinitron SGI re-branded monitors with granite PS/2 keyboard and a granite PS/2 mouse. > Maya would be nice (and if I remember right there's evidence that it was > originally accessible from that machine, but via a long-gone network > drive), but I assume that period versions are difficult to get hold of. Difficult, but not impossible. Maya 6.5 was the last version made for the SGI. You can buy media on Ebay. I note that the last auction (for a set of 6.0 disks) was in Feb 2016. So, it seems possible. However, I got mine from purchasing an O2 with Maya 4.x on it. Just about any interesting commercial app/tool is going to have flexlm copy protection, hence the large amount of Irix warez & cracks you'll notice on p2p networks like eMule. -Swift
