Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35
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Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35
I had to open this thing up anyway (power supply broke, NVRAM battery dead), so I took some pics of the internals.

This system started out with a CAD/CAM company where it ran an early version of Pro/Engineer. It was their first system, they basically bootstrapped their company with it, so it took some effort to convince them to donate it to me.

Over they years I upgraded the RAM from 32 to 128MB (the maximum it can take, and that's more than the Indigo R3000 which succeeded it!), and added the rare "Turbo" option to the GR1.5 graphics. I also added a VideoFramer (I have the breakout box and cables as well).

Unfortunately there isn't much software that will utilize the unique hardware inside this system. Early Alias / Wavefront software, maybe.


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Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 09-04-2019, 08:21 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jirka - 09-04-2019, 08:29 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 09-09-2019, 01:34 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by Irinikus - 09-04-2019, 08:32 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by Intuition - 09-10-2019, 09:49 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 09-11-2019, 08:54 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by Dylanear - 09-23-2019, 05:15 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 09-23-2019, 09:04 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by Dylanear - 09-23-2019, 07:14 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 10-15-2019, 08:22 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by vishnu - 07-18-2025, 08:27 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by necron2600 - 12-30-2019, 01:39 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 12-30-2019, 09:08 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by necron2600 - 01-31-2020, 06:15 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by necron2600 - 01-31-2020, 07:16 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by Noguri - 10-19-2020, 07:25 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by RageX - 10-24-2020, 07:43 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 06-19-2024, 07:49 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by robespierre - 06-19-2024, 09:28 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by backdash - 06-18-2024, 02:04 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 08-16-2024, 06:22 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 08-16-2024, 08:22 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 08-23-2024, 06:36 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-17-2025, 08:38 AM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-17-2025, 03:34 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by robespierre - 07-17-2025, 03:49 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by vishnu - 07-17-2025, 04:13 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-17-2025, 06:50 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by vishnu - 07-17-2025, 08:45 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-18-2025, 12:43 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 07-18-2025, 12:58 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-18-2025, 04:17 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-19-2025, 08:28 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by jan-jaap - 07-19-2025, 09:14 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-20-2025, 03:24 PM
RE: Introducing: my Personal IRIS 4D/35 - by rutger - 07-30-2025, 11:55 AM

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