#silicongraphics

James Holdenjamesholden@mas.to
2025-10-26

Added some lighting to the vintage computer collection. Quite pleased with the result. #retrocomputing #retrogaming #vintagecomputing #vintageapple #silicongraphics #sgi #acorn #sunmicrosystems #sega

Various vintage computers from Apple, SGI, Sun, Acorn and Sega
2025-10-14

Silicon Graphics defined high-performance computing for visual effects and 3D graphics in the 90s. Their workstations powered CGI in Jurassic Park and Terminator 2, and they helped pioneer OpenGL, still a standard in graphics today.

Now barely a memory, only its website survives; 1 in a Trillion on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
web.archive.org/web/1997060100

#WaybackMachine #SiliconGraphics #CGI #TechHistory #3DGraphics

Image with text at the top that reads: "Wayback Machine Then and Gone" and "SGI.COM". Below are Wayback Machine captures of the Silicon Graphics SGI website from July 6, 1997, alongside a stylized computer window featuring a pixel art frowning face representing that the website is gone.
🔏 Matthias Wiesmannthias
2025-09-14

And now I wonder how hard it could be to patch a 68K silicon graphics IRIS 3000 to run classic mac os. I doubt I'll have time in my lifetime to look into that, but still making QuickDraw work with a bitplane graphic adapter would be interesting…

Lucas Janin 🇨🇦🇫🇷lucas3d
2025-09-12

To all professionals and retirees in the industry, join the by posting photos of your work environment (including yourself, , your , your desk at home and even your pets). The goal is to showcase that people are working on movies and shows that are believed to have no !

Thanks for your participation and boots!

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Me, 25 years younger, sit in front of my workstation, an Octane, with a 21” CRT.
2025-07-20

@lauren @PeterLudemann @not2b I used to joke about how without fail every other generation (Challenge-Origin server and Indigo-O2 desktop era) of Silicon Graphics machines - the power supplies would either just die (no blinking lights) or catch on fire (literal flames shooting out). #sgi #silicongraphics A smart software engineer whose deskside machine caught on fire in his office calmly rolled it outside, removed the disks to save their work, THEN used an extinguisher on it.

2025-07-19

EDIT: It's been reserved, thanks for boosts!

I have a Silicon Graphics (Norwegian) PS/2-keyboard, a PS/2 mouse (with ball), a Silicon Graphics Camera and a SGI O2 Workstation Quickstart guide. They are all headed for recycling. BUT, if someone wants the lot I can probably make the effort to ship it for the cost of postage and packaging from Norway to whereever you are.

I'll store it until the end of august.

#sgi #silicongraphics

2025-07-17

SGI Octane: What can a $30,000 computer from the 90's do ?

makertube.net/w/86ZCm8LDh1wgF2

Eric Bariauxebariaux
2025-06-26

Brochure for the Onyx supercomputers and the RealityEngine² graphics card.
Back in the day (around 1993), this was the gold standard for real-time 3D graphics. Modern iPhone GPUs are now orders of magnitude faster.

I used to drool over this tech and was lucky enough to have one on loan for a few days during a science fair organised by my university.

Silicon Graphics Onyx brochure from 1993
2025-06-16

So... Anyone out there have any hot tips on debugging a dead #SiliconGraphics power supply??

2025-06-16

I figured it couldn’t hurt to drop in to HARD OFF on my walk back from the mall.

Wandering through the Junk PC aisle, a double-take, what is that teal beauty on the bottom shelf?

A SiliconGraphics O2? In MY rural Japanese city? How did that get here? The tag showed it had been there for over a week. At $60 I had to give it a home!

Lugging it home in the 31+C heat, squeezing in on the tram and dashing through the rain was a slog but it made it home!

#silicongraphics #sgi #RetroComputing #mb

Shelves of old PCs of dubious value.

In the middle is a SiliconGraphics O2A SiliconGraphics O2 in a thin HARD OFF plastic bag stood next to tram tracks with some smattering of rain on it
2025-06-16

Ummm… WTF???

(this one is getting its own thread once I get it home and take a closer look)

#HARDOFF #thrifting #sgi #silicongraphics #o2 #RetroComputing

Shelves of old PCs of dubious value.

In the middle is a SiliconGraphics O2
/usr/people/flexionflexion@oldbytes.space
2025-06-02

How I prefer to browse my filesystem 💎
#IRIX #SiliconGraphics 🦖

2025-04-26
Here is another #retrocomputer #vector #illustration that we created with 100% #FreeSoftware. While #Inkscape was perfect for #SVG, all reference images been prepared with #Krita. Most fun part was to work with #LPE live path effects on the #SUNcomputers logo design.

Even when the #SUN #sparcstation with #Solaris #OS was much more powerful, the multi-color logo was obviously inspired by #applecomputer and the #3D effect by their competitor #silicongraphics.

However, this video is all about bringing a #sparc #classic #workstation #ISP back to life...
https://piped.video/watch?v=SMz2y-wdbzs

No animals have been harmed in this production, nor was #Adobe #Illustrator used in any capacity.
Screenshot of a SUN sparc retro computer created in SVG vector quality with Inkscape
James Holdenjamesholden@mas.to
2025-04-24

Look! A #silicongraphics Indy in Black Mirror Plaything! #sgi #vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #unix

A screen grab from Black Mirror Plaything showing the main character looking at a computer game on a screen, with a SGI Indy in the background.
2025-04-15

Anyone have any interest in an Silicon Graphics O2 Workstation Owner's Guide?

Document number 007-3282-004

It's headed for recycling if there are no takers.

#silicongraphics #sgi

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