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stonent
Junior Member
USA
155 Posts |
 Posted - 11 Jun 2003 : 15:55:09
We all know that Macs have had cool boot sounds, but SGI has had some pretty cool ones. I've got a bunch of them on one of my websites if you want to have a listen:
http://home.attbi.com/~stonentflags/sgisounds.tar.gzSome are aiff and some are wav, I put both because some sound better than others. The following systems are included
Personal Iris 4D w/ Magnum Audio - Boot
Indigo - Boot and Shutdown
Indy - Boot and Shutdown
Indigo2 - Boot and Shutdown
O2 - Boot and Shutdown
Octane - Boot and Shutdown
6360av 32/6.4/8.1 ;)
SE 4/2000/FDHD/7.0.1 :)
Q840av - Alive!
Q650 64/2000/A/UX Woot!
SGI Indy R5000PC
2 Sparc Classics, 1 IPC, 1 SS4, 1 SS5
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jun 2003 : 18:41:24
interesting!  "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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emaq123
Junior Member
USA
258 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jun 2003 : 19:27:00
Very Cool  ! Thanks for sharing...I've got some Irix CDs, but I still need the sgi to go with them.  emaq123 SE/30 and system 6.0.8 Now we're talking POWER! |
cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jun 2003 : 20:33:17
COOL!!!I'm downloading and going to listen to them soon  Official 68k videographer
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llamaboy487
Full Member
USA
516 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jun 2003 : 20:50:58
markie (wherever he is, he hasnt posted in a while) has an SGI Challenge-S running Irix, its on his site
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cory5412
68KMLA Comrade-in-Arms
USA
4679 Posts |
Posted - 11 Jun 2003 : 21:12:23
I thought it was an indy, and I thought that it's hard drive pooped out  Official 68k videographer
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maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2003 : 02:24:55
quote:
I thought it was an indy, and I thought that it's hard drive pooped out Official 68k videographer
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Alien
Junior Member
Netherlands
269 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2003 : 02:49:51
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I thought it was an indy, [...]
For all intents and purposes, a Challenge S is an Indy; an Indy without video, with extra SCSI ports and a different case colour. ,xtG
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markie
Starting Member
Netherlands
38 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2003 : 03:13:27
Hey! Yes indeed, I have a Challenge S and indeed it's sort of an Indy, but with a way cooler name ("Yeah baby, I'm gonna have to log in to my *SGI Challenge*") :-) Main differences are, most of the onboard goodies of the Indy are gone, so no video in/out, indycam or other connectors, the machine also has no video whatsoever and no sound (so also no bootsound ;-)). But it's a serious piece of hardware, with the I/O-board that belongs to this Challenge it's got 2 ethernetports in total and 3(!!) SCSI-controllers(I actually have 3 ethernetports, there's a Phobos G100 100mbit as well) ;-) Anyway, indeed, my drive retired and I did get me some 2nd hand 4.3GB scsi-disks but I suspect them to have quite a mileage already, so now I made a guy an offer for a *brandnew* 9GB SCSI-disk, hope that works out. The Challenge S doesnt have a floppy-drive and so I think I can put a full-height 3.5" SCSI-disk in there (the FDD normally is on top of the half-height SCSI-disk) Finding the male-male 50-pins<->68-pin connectors wasn't easy either, only one shop here had them and way too expensive. I ordered 2 of them cheap now and expect them in any time. When it's all done (I do have a Toshiba SCSI-CD-rom and the official Irix-CD-set) and running I'm looking in to co-locating the machine at a studentshouse here in town, they have 10mbit glassfibre connection(up&down, no kidding) next to the university and somebody I know lives there, guess I have to pay the guys with crates of beer... (I think it's gonna work out, they like telling everybody they have a SGI running in their closet I guess) I did register a domainname already that's gonna run on the box, http://geektechnique.org/ :-) (that's now forwarded to http://mark.is-a-geek.org/ which is running on my router on my cablemodem) Anyway, here's my SGI:
http://mark.is-a-geek.org/iris.html
http://mark.is-a-geek.org/challenge.html http://mark.is-a-geek.org/
a Classic II, a LC475, a Quadra 800 and some other hardware :-) |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2003 : 03:46:13
quote:
Hey! Yes indeed, I have a Challenge S and indeed it's sort of an Indy, but with a way cooler name ("Yeah baby, I'm gonna have to log in to my *SGI Challenge*") :-)
Somehow, iThink Indy sounds cooler than Challenge...Challenge sounds too 1980s to me. Btw, do i see an LC475 running A/UX on another part of your website? "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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markie
Starting Member
Netherlands
38 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2003 : 06:41:16
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Btw, do i see an LC475 running A/UX on another part of your website?
Well, that's what I tried, but during install the screen blanks out and doesn't come back, so it's not 'compatible' with A/UX... Anyway, I got myself a Quadra 800 now, I loaded it with Ram(72 mb) and a 1GB SCSI-disk, but I do not have a compatible CD-romdrive to install it... at the same point during install, the screen goes blank, comes back(that it didn't do on the LC475, what a progress!) and then resets the SCSI-bus. I tried 3 different CD-romplayers but all of them are too slow to respond to the reset, so where the installer *expects* the player to be back, it isn't and I get an error and that's that... So I'll have to wait till there's a computertrade overhere and then buy all the obsolete scsi-cd-romplayers I can find. In the mean time I use the Quadra as a fun machine on my desk, with system 7.5, NCSA telnet and Ircle :-) ...and the LC475? Well, I installed NetBSD on it, but the ethernetcard I have isn't recognized as such and I need to get me a Sonic or Asanté or such. So I have all these little things where I have to wait for and sometimes I manage to get a strange part I'm looking for and then that's the project I work on for a couple of days... Just now I bought some new spraypaint for my MacMonitor project(9" PC-monitor in a modded Mac SE, painted black), so that's what I'm gonna work on the coming days :-) The whole idea is to put all of my projects online, hosted on my SGI Challenge somewhere in a closet in a studenthouse :-) http://mark.is-a-geek.org/
a Classic II, a LC475, a Quadra 800 and some other hardware :-) |
maclover5
LC Doctor/Hot Rodder
Australia
5830 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2003 : 06:58:19
Slightly OT: What's the speed on the CD ROM drives? Just wondering. "**** em" - Jobs in regards to customers
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markie
Starting Member
Netherlands
38 Posts |
Posted - 12 Jun 2003 : 08:14:09
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Slightly OT: What's the speed on the CD ROM drives? Just wondering.
Well, I somewhere read I would have a chance with slower drives... the first one I tried was my burner, a Yamaha 6x4x16, way too fast of course ;-) Then I tried a Toshiba which works wonders on my SGI for installing Irix, I believe that's a 3.4x and then a little while ago I bought an old IBM drive and I believe that's a 2x(but could be 4x)... Anyway, I once saw a list of drives *known* to work with A/UX so I should get me one of the list... http://mark.is-a-geek.org/
a Classic II, a LC475, a Quadra 800 and some other hardware :-) |
Collection of SGI sounds
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