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[sgifanatic]

Hi All,

I just joined the forum. I am based in Central Texas and my collection includes:

SGI Indigo
SGI Indy
SGI Indigo2 (Teal and Purple)
SGI POWER Indigo
SGI O2
SGI Octane
SGI Octane II
SGI Fuel
SGI Origin 300
Sun Sparcstation 10
NeXT Nextstation
NeXT Cube
BeBox
Apple G4 Cube
Apple II GS (new and haven't gotten this working yet other than bootup)
Commodore 64 (new and haven't gotten this working yet)
Macintosh Plus (new and haven't gotten this working yet)
Macintosh Color Classic (working through power on problems)

Other than these, a Vortex86 based DOS system, a variety of embedded systems based on ARM (Beagle Board, Panda Board, Raspberry Pi), some older handheld devices (Palm V), Fujitsu Stylistic (early Windows XP Tablet edition computer), Dell Inspiron 7500 and a variety of other PC laptops/desktops.

Most of these systems are up on shelves or in the garage. I'm trying to figure out how to get them set up in a mini-museum kind of environment so that they are all demoable.

Hope to make new friends at Amibay and learn from you all.

 

[storhemulen]

Hello and welcome. While I'm not a true SGI collector I do have some myself (Octane, Indy, Indigo2) and used them professionally performing structural analysis. They never ever crashed, while the Intel based boxes I use today crash regularly, for various reasons. SGI machines were really great for serious number crunching. The ones I have were rescued from the dumpster as the company I worked for then replaced them with shitty PCs.

 

[sgifanatic]

Hello and welcome. While I'm not a true SGI collector I do have some myself (Octane, Indy, Indigo2) and used them professionally performing structural analysis. They never ever crashed, while the Intel based boxes I use today crash regularly, for various reasons. SGI machines were really great for serious number crunching. The ones I have were rescued from the dumpster as the company I worked for then replaced them with shitty PCs.

The SGIs are pretty solid machines! These days, I'm spending most of my hobby time expanding my collection to cover other systems of interest (ST, Amiga, GS and others). Next, I want to focus on upgrading all the "special" specimens in my collection and getting as much software for them as possible. On the SGI front, I have a lot of systems but not nearly the software library I would like. It's great to have beautiful vintage systems to look at, but I think I'm doing these beauties a dis-service by not running the apps that made them so amazing. In the case of SGI, that would be stuff like Maya, SoftImage3D etc.

 

[Banger]

Welcome to AmiBay.

 

[sgifanatic]

Welcome to AmiBay.

Thank you kindly!