Still have this?

how old is that laptop mate?

Nice

sick

Wait. Where & how is the keyboard connected ?

Have you ever heard of people collecting the Motorola based stuff? I have always been curious, never seen one. I assume they're all gone and were incredibly rare even when contemporary but really old stuff is fascinating.

I've had that experience with both wire wrap and Kynar and solder construction... pull it out of storage after years, power it up, and it still works. A great feeling when it happens. :) Glad you didn't try to use a 65C51 for serial. Smart move :)

Quadra 700! 💜

you look alike wozniak when he started the garage computer.

Maybe contact Ian Mapleson of SGI Depot to get a replacement framebuffer memory module as I've had the same vertical line error pattern on an Indigo2 and it was due to a failed framebuffer RAM chip...

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The calculus book that can never be missing

Ouch that graze looks like it stings

wow my c64 and busted mac performa would look great on your tables!

update on the iris? you doing anything interesting with it?

I forgot how funny you are. Fantastic clip.

I have several old SGI's sitting in my office for display. My pride in an old SGI Indy R5000 XZ. Everything original even the stress ball, packaging and monitor. Completely as you would receive it from SGI back in the days. I used to work for SGI as a product specialist on the Alias|Wavefront products and this system was given to me for demo purposes. It was however never really used, cause the O2 was launched not long after and the sales department preferred to do demos on the much faster graphics of those machines. The O2s were also much easier for us to take on the road for demo sessions.

Don't connect your beloved vintage CRTs to experimental cards. LCDs tolerate errors better.

The OS is called "I-ricks" not "Ear-wax"

It's kind of weird, back then you thought SGI was hawt, but also a total dawg. You wanted to love one, but you knew there was absolutely no software available for them so it was an overpriced dead end experience... Unlike say a Macintosh Tower Workstation, which though it had no 3D, was an absolute dream environment to be in. At least it was for me, I pirated an entire software store of it's Macintosh software. My Mac and printer at the time blew every SGI away for what it actually... could do. Now, I guess if you were Industrial Light and Magic and spend hundreds of thousands to buy SGI, and then also... and here's the kicker... hire developers to actually code the software you needed to do the 3D work you wanted, SGI was the only game in town. You pretty much had to write your own software to take advantage of that 3D hardware. At least that was my perception at the time. I had a chance to push an SGI workstation on a rolly cart at the exit of a computer museum one time that was just sitting there unused... already on the rolly cart, unplugged, no security cams, exit door right there, nobody around... and I passed on it. I knew when I got it home, it'd be just a neat purple box, without software, there really was nothing you could do on it... Maybe leave it on all the time, host your websites I guess, play around in a text editor or on the command line. I could do all that with MachTen BSD on the Mac already anyway...

Of all the things to go wrong the power supply would certainly be the preferred one. Thats something that most electronics repair places should be able to fix, unlike any of the computey bits. I hope you kept the orig and got someone to fix it for ya. Really cool to see this.

Fascinating.

when an electrical engineer wanna flex their projects to the normal people they use jumper wire😁😁.

Very cool project! I built a similar computer almost 20 years ago but with Atmel AVR and Xilinx CPLD, interesting to see people are still using VGA monitors for this, though with Aliexpress you have access to cheap high definition LCDs and OLEDs nowadays.

Awesome machine 👌😍 well done

he's alive!

Holy shit, I remember watching you stream your work on this, idk if you disappeared or if KZbin stopped putting your work in my feed, but I'm no happy to see that you've done it! This is so so so so cool!

uhh yeah there may be a problem with your famicom disk reader

Good work!

2:54 what is "Back toll shim"? Can't you 'Muricans never even TRY (!) to pronounce foreign names correctly? It is pronounced "Baech" ("ch" like a hissing cat), "tolls", and "hime" (with the "ime" like in "dime"). So difficult?

13:23 you look like skinnier peter griffin :D

Really cool!

Definitely not as accessible as later SGI units.

but where did he go?

5:25 not so odd, you can remove an secondary drive while your computer is on by ejecting it, you cant do that on your primary driver. (well at least on linux you can, this is a unix system so it should be similiar)

Grazie per il video, ricordo quella SGI e cosa riusciva a fare ai suoi tempi; l'unico computer che mi potevo permettere era un Amiga 2000 dotato di 68030 e gpu

Cool thing is the SGi emulation system that can emulate different systems and boot IRIS

Wow! Pretty nice and neet computer. Both in how it designed and how it looks.

this is such a cool project!! you're a good teacher!

It’s like showing someone a picture of your house but not your actual house

Everyone in 2023 I want to make a really shitty computer from 1974 I hate this new stuff 😅 ps good job wish their was a display

you can try to make a basic bios for the video card because every video card nowadays has basic bios just to control the color signal and other stuff like the vram and other voltages

None of those "that's what she said" jokes actually make any sense, so they are all bad and you should be ashamed of yourself.

"I'm a little more polished." And I'm a little more drunk than the last few videos in the playlist.

"Zero errors, zero warnings, that makes me feel uneasey." Spoken like a true programmer.

There is something beautiful about the crow's nest of wires on the back.

I find Ben's videos so soothing that I use them to fall asleep to. (After watching them properly first, of course.) Some people like to fall asleep to music or bedtime stories, I like to fall asleep to computer/electrical engineering. Go figure.

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Wow an apple poo!! Waist of a good pi in a pile of ewaist lol..