On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Jon Elson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Don Stanley wrote:
> > Hi Kent;
> > I have wondered how SGI faired over the years.
> > A look at Wiki and WOW.
> >
> > It looked like some awesome graphics near the end, especially
> > their larger systems.
> >
> > I was using their IRIS 1000 - 3000 and the IRIS 4D (Baby steps).
> > But they were great by comparison to what was available otherwise.
> >
> My university threw out an IRIS 3030 that stopped working. I lugged the
> thing
> home and found somebody that worked on them who diagnosed the problem
> as a bad geometry engine. I found a guy in Germany who shipped me the
> entire board
> set out of one. I ran it for a while, it was slow, but the graphics
> were pretty nice.
> I played around with their flight sim demo. Eventually, that geometry
> engine quit,
> too. I had enough parts I could have probably fixed it, until the next
> time it crapped
> out. I sold all the boards to a broker.
>
> Jon
>
Yes, that unit is coming up on 30 years old plus in a university
environment.
That would be hard on a human and especially a piece of high tech
electronics.
Don
>
>
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