[HN Gopher] This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graph...
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       This Old SGI: notes and memoirs on the Silicon Graphics 4D series
       (1996)
        
       Author : exvi
       Score  : 55 points
       Date   : 2025-08-03 15:04 UTC (7 hours ago)
        
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       | fidotron wrote:
       | This is very timely for me, because I've just come into
       | possession of a 4D/60 "buttons box" (which normally would go with
       | the dials). It is quite unlike the later button boxes since it's
       | a giant cheese wedge with the power supply integrated, which
       | seems to be very rare as there's no reference to this on the net
       | anywhere. It even has a display where when the unit powers on it
       | says it's rev A. I'm hoping the DB-9 on it is RS232 and can be
       | spoken to by a modern machine, but my one RS232 cable is the
       | wrong gender, of course.
       | 
       | Many years ago I had an Indigo, and even 25 years ago that was an
       | exercise in difficult interfacing with modern equipment. The
       | monitor was amazing.
       | 
       | Edit to add: the notes here about 20A power requirements remind
       | me of when a VR company I was consulting for hired a notable CTO
       | from the VFX business and all he cared about was making sure
       | there was enough electricity supplied to the office. That was in
       | about 2015 and I remember thinking he was clearly scarred by
       | previous events and was long out of date.
        
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