Ahh the good old days

Ahh the good old days....
What was your favorite computer?

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If it needs more than 8-bits, it's a waste

Amiga 1200 or p3 450

I actually owned the similar Epson HX-20 long before I owned pic related, but I think pic related is one of the coolest PCs of all time.

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How do these stack up today?

I still use them regularly.

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Reminds me of the T2000SX I had in high school. Got it from a thrift shop for 10 bucks and it had a broken backlight but I took notes and did homework on it anyway.

Not a computer, but a drive, still using

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VPro Octanes spent most of their lives getting spit-roasted by mid-range commodity PCs with GeForce cards at a tenth of the price, aside from maybe their artfully over-engineered and supercomputer-like internals granting them fantastic memory bandwidth they were never at the top of the pack.
But you didn't pay the SGI tax for the shitty hardware, you paid it for IRIX which is a pretty damn good SysV with a kickass commercial software base and lots of community support. If you don't just use your computer as a dumb terminal for the internet there's plenty of things you can do with them, but they definitely aren't going to blow away any of your current hardware. The onboard audio/video I/O is pretty nice though. I like using my SGIs for recording and editing.

my Athlon64 :3

Still have it.

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why not just use 2.5'' ssd or hdd as a cartrige?

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This but the monitor was a bit different and had a pedestal like stand.
I just threw out the monitor last week since I don't use it anymore and the stand broke off a couple years ago when it slid out of my hands and fell down my attic stairs.
I had that thing since like 2000 o7
I still feel like shit for throwing out the monitor.

This is a solid looking keyboard.

this

I still have two.
Every once and awhile the DVD drives decide to work and it's a good day. The problem seems to be that there's two rubber rollers that are supposed to grip the disk and force it out, but they don't have enough friction with the axle they're on so they just stick in place. Same story with my G3 imac.

>I still use them regularly.
What do you do with them?

Bitcoin mining

>serial terminal on Linux servers, Cisco routers, other retro gear (Altair 8800, PDP-8/e)
>EEPROM programming
>Telnet, FTP, and IRC client + servers
>checking email
>writing when I'm on holiday without internet
>dicking about in QuickBASIC and Turbo C

Damn, I wish modern tech look that aesthetic.

Lenovo have basically stayed true to the timeless IBM aesthetic with their workstations.

64MB video onboard
6 USB port
HD 40GB
CDROM
512MB DDR1

This, IBM Aptiva (1997 model). Upgraded the graphics twice, 1st time was an ATI Xpert 98 8mb (1998) . 2nd time was to a 3dfx voodoo 3 2000 (1999). Still got both graphics cards. Sadly don't got the aptiva anymore but I do have a 2001 era Dell Dimension L800CXE which has the Voodoo 3 in it.

Have a P310 at work, can confirm they're sexy inside and out. Bit on the pricey side though.

>tfw I had this pc in 2001

The one I'm using now is 9 years old and it's the first computer I built. I only had to replace the Hard Drive and it can still chug along to with the best of them. I'll be sad to see it go.

First pc I built I still have in storage
Socket 370 system. Needs a graphics card and maybe a new psu (dunno ain't pulled it out for a long long time) Second pc I built for gaming I still have also in storage. Socket 939. That one features a kinda unique motherboard. Fully intact and still fully functional. Also got a decommissioned MATX mobo/Opteron 170/4GB ram combo that used to serve as the core of my first server build. All three components still work .

>tfw it's was more advanced in 1981 in some concepts than unices(likes) today

God I hated working on those fuckers. worst designed oem computer ever, and the front panel USB was also the worst design that has ever been implemented in a computer. I dare anyone to find a worse front panel USB port that's worse, because it's hard to beat facing down at 45 degree angles, and the port being upside down.

>portait aspect ratio screen
>they would never make anything like this today

>lenovo
>pricey
Compared to what?

The would and they do if you're willing to pay for it, as people were back in 1981.

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I've got that same mousepad, still use it

ill just settle for tilting an LCD

These make me hard.
But not this because I'm not a faggot

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I'm happy with my matte black case, but I would certainly love to have one of these

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still works, although it's running debian and there is something severely fucked up with the latest PPC debian release that makes the GPU drivers completely broken so it's running some godawful old version just so X works.. probably going to reinstall Tiger or whatever the last PPC OS X I have on DVD is

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My family's first computer. I regret that I didn't learn to program on it until much later

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There used to be plenty of Octanes and O2s on ebay few years ago but then this Brit, Ian Mapleson bought everything on sight. He's now selling them, including Fuels and Tezros on his website but asking fucking ridiculous prices. What a dick.
I had Octane and couple of O2s. They are great machines even today if you want to try out and see how the history of 3d animation was. I had Softimage 3.6, PowerAnimator, Flame and lot of other more obscure stuff installed on the Octane. Some of the software didn't have any cracks though and the licenses were long gone. I think I had Dynamation as well but couldn't use it because no license.

Yeah, I use a lot of old Unix hardware as well. Plenty you can do with them.
All I'm saying is that as far as how they "stack up", they weren't really super exciting in terms of pure performance even as new products. SGI was a husk of itself by then, even if the systems were still cool looking and usable.

I'd like to test it with some real benchmarks some day though, and stick it all in one place. I'm curious to see how my HP Visualize gear goes up against the SGI hardware it was supposed to compete against.

I miss the color coded shit inside computers from the early 2000s and all the weird plastic fan funnels as well

Pentium 2/3 with commodity geforce card (or was it Riva TNT back then?) was better than VPRO. Of course VPRO has other functions back then especially visualization of volumetric data and shit like that. It's still interesting piece of computing history because these machines are all pretty unique.

Also I think at that time, somewhere in 1997 and after that, you needed an Octane to edit HD image sequences because no other computer had enough memory bandwidth to do so. That's why Flame was always only on Onyx/Octane.

Don't disagree at all, my dude.
Wouldn't mind a loaded V12+Dual 400 Octane2, I'd probably daily drive the damn thing if I could.
That makes sense. Doesn't seem like anything matched their bandwidth for a long time, but I just can't see the Octane2s carrying that advantage into the 2000s.

Now I want to fuck around with stream on some random systems I have laying around.

I have it's successor (Optiplex 7010) and I gotta be honest DELL really got their shit together.
it's the DT version (desktop, can be placed both vertically like a normal tower and horizontally like oldschool workstations that went under the monitor)

Physically having to maitain these must be a fucking breeze, everything comes apart incredibly and goes back together without a hitch and without the need for a single too.