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Hi from Germany - another newbie! - Jan - 05-29-2022
Hi there,
I'm Jan and I live in Germany.
A very long time ago, I heard of SGI for the first time and liked it instantly! Which is quite normal when you are used to the Amiga or C64, C128, etc. before at that time.
I don't know when it was exactly but it could have even been movies like T2, Lawnmower Man and Jurassic Park
.My first contact was an Iris Indigo running IRIX 4.? on which I viewed the first (and only) webpage of CERN in 1992 - with NCSA Mosaic, of course. I didn't expect that to become so popular in the world then...
Over the years, I noticed every new SGI workstation and could only dream to have one myself - until now.
I bought my first O2 - that one, I liked the most at the end of the 90s - together with A 1600SW monitor, keyboard, mouse and mousepad.
Even the active speakers are on the way. Everything is in the cool granite look, which I liked most.
The only thing of SGI, I had before were some glossy brochures of the Indigo 2
.And no, it's not the only legacy stuff, I have here. There are some Amiga 500s, a C64II, C128, C128D, some Monitors, Floppy drives, Datasette, lots of spare parts and so on...
A PowerMac G3 is here too - works as a cool stand for one oy my FP displays.
I'm looking forward to find some help and answers because my UNIX knowledge is very limited and since I got nearly no SGI experience, there's a lot to learn!
Jan
Great fan of
 
RE: Hi from Germany - another newbie! - Irinikus - 05-29-2022
Welcome!
RE: Hi from Germany - another newbie! - lunatic - 05-29-2022
Hallo!
RE: Hi from Germany - another newbie! - Raion - 05-29-2022
Hello Jan. Welcome.
RE: Hi from Germany - another newbie! - vishnu - 05-29-2022
Not to worry, the Indigo Magic desktop on SGI workstations makes using them a walk in the park! Sort of. Maybe. Okay, not so much... ð ð ðĪŠ
RE: Hi from Germany - another newbie! - Raion - 05-29-2022
It's called the IID in 6.5 -- IRIX Interactive Desktop. Indigo Magic was used in 5.x
RE: Hi from Germany - another newbie! - vishnu - 05-30-2022
(05-29-2022, 09:03 PM)Raion Wrote: It's called the IID in 6.5 -- IRIX Interactive Desktop. Indigo Magic was used in 5.x
You, sir, are a regular education! ð
RE: Hi from Germany - another newbie! - Gamefan - 05-30-2022
Welcome, Jan!