After I got exposed to UNIX and learnt a bit more about it, I was scouring Ebay for a decent workstation and was shocked to discover how cheap second hand Silicon Graphics gear can be.
I picked up an SGI Indy - those cool looking blue pizza boxes. Mine came complete with a big old 21" CRT and the cool looking IndyCam.
After some playing around I wanted to find out how to get some more software for the machine - things like GNU software, freeware, apps, that sort of stuff. Some googling around and I came across SiliconBunny
It's a help and information site for Silicon Graphics machines, and it's got an absolute tonne of information on there. As well as mirrors of old sites, there are links to other SGI related websites, model summaries, downloads of some nice apps - all sorts of stuff.
A few years ago they also started collating any Silicon Graphics related news items - mostly press releases and things, but I started to keep an eye on it just to know what SGI were up to. Slide on over to SiliconBunny News and see what I mean.
I picked up a second hand 1600SW LCD screen on Ebay, and then was stumped - as it was an SGI monitor I had assumed it would come with the 13W3 connector so I could connect it up to my Octane. I wasn't that thrilled to find out it came with some odd-looking digital connector called LVDS.
A quick browse brought me to the 1600SW FAQ, which pointed me in the right direction to find out what I needed to get this great screen hooked up to my Octane.
Although it's a bit old, this Wired article does a great job in explaining the attraction of these cool systems. I'm glad to see that there's still a solid community behind SGI, cos these machines will keep ticking on for years.
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