Indy Periodic Table

SGI traditionally published periodic tables to show the various system options, and how they compared to each other. Here’s a listing of all the periodic tables I’ve been able to find – please get in touch if you’ve found any more that should be added.

• Indy

• Indigo2

• O2

• Challenge

• Onyx

• Onyx2

• Power Challenge

Periodic Tables of the Irises – these cover a larger product range from the time:

• 1993-05-19 – 342k JPEG image

• 1993-07-13 – 266k JPEG image

• 1994-01-10 – 243k JPEG image

This is a collection of sites that I’ve found too useful to risk losing – hence they’ve been mirrored locally.

Reality is back as http://reality.sgiweb.org. However, not all the old Reality content is live yet. Please give them a donation to keep them going!

If there is extra information you think should be mirrored, or you have content you’d like mirrored, please get in touch.

At the moment, the current information is mirrored here:

• The SGI FAQs
    Their home was http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/index.html . This appears to be dead now.
  
    A copy can still be found at http://www.faqs.org/faqs/sgi/

• SGI’s Legacy Products page
    Also known as “SGI’s page of Cool Stuff” – this is where product information for the more common and much loved older kit is.

• Scott Henry’s pages about configuring PPP for IRIX

• Douglas Scott’s SGI Audio Apps pages

• Bill Henderson’s List of FTP sites with IRIX software

• Ken Schwarz’s Tips and Tricks page, as well as his excellent Remote Joystick pages

• Rick Davis’ Digital Video resources

• SGI Quake and Quake2 plus some mods used to be found at http://reality.sgi.com/sgiquake/index.html. A local mirror can be found here.

• Jeff Martin’s Motion Capture pages

• Lots of excellent information about Roboinst was at http://reality.sgi.com/roboinst/index.html. Sadly my mirror has been lost and I can’t find any other archives. This was the definitive resource for network installs of IRIX.
  Please if you have a copy get in touch so it can be mirrored here.

• Tom Kaye’s VRML 2.0 Resources

• Jodeman’s SGI Stuff

• Chris Pirazzi’s Lurker’s Guide to Video

• Alex’s SGI Pages

• SGI’s 1600SW FAQs

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OK, it’s not big, and it’s not clever. Never mind, here’s a list of some of the hacks I’ve been responsible for.

The Octane KnightRider Light Bar

Right, remember KITT from Knight Rider? Back when David Hasslehoff was surrounded by a rather naff Pontiac Trans-Am instead of the silicon splendour of Bay Watch?

KITT was cool. And the coolest part about KITT was the moving LED bar he had on the bonnet. If you didn’t grow up with Knight Rider, think Cylons. If you didn’t grow up with Battlestar Galactica, then – to be honest – you were probably an abused child. Seek help.

Now, there are a couple of problems with the stock light bar on the Octane:

1. It uses incandescant bulbs, which are more fragile than the XIO compression connectors
2. It’s incredibly dull on such a cool machine

Greg Douglas, over at Reputable, sells some rather nice LED light bars. They’re cool, but the shipping costs of getting them to the UK ruled them out for me.

So, what to do?

With a bit of hunting, I found KnightLight’s web site. Now, if you can ignore the appalling image of tragic mullet heads fitting this stuff to their Vauxhall Novas, you can find a LED kit for a PC, at http://www.knightlight.co.uk/pr-ks3016.htm.

Right, now, assume you have acquired one of these trinkets. Now, down to the hackery to get it fitted as the Octane’s light bar.

Remove the existing light bar

This is easy – they’ve got four ‘gripped’ tabs, a pair at either end. (See pictures below) Push them together and then pull it out towards you. Needs a bit of force, but easily done. You’ll notice there are four pins – these provide power.

Looking at the front of the Octane, the four sockets provide:

The LED bar will need a 5V supply, but after some extended testing (ie. none) I can conclude that it’s happy with a lower supply of 3.6V.

Attaching the LED bar

There are two ways to do this:

1. The Proper Way – soldering wires and taking your time
2. The Hack Way – bodge it a bit

Always remember – electricians tape is your friend.

Here’s what I did:

• Cut off some wires from an old broken Sparc LX which had a similar sized connector on the end
• Used a screw driver to lever open the pressed metal connectors inside the PC-style power connector
• Jammed the wires inside the metal connectors, and then forced them shut again
• Next, I cut a small section away from the front panel, to fit the bar in place
• I then stuck it in place with some electricians tape

All you need to do now is put it all together and turn on your Octane – and away you go.

Pictures

No hack would be complete without some poor digital photography to provide the details.

• The old Octane light bar
• The finished installation
• Closeup of the LED light bar fitted to the front cover
• The end result

Our collection of links to FAQs and other useful sources of SGI info. If there are some you think we’ve missed, or else you have something you want referenced/mirrored, then please get in touch.

Note: Reality is back! Check out http://reality.sgiweb.org/. Also note that reality.sgi.com also works again. If you’ve ever used Reality, consider using the PayPal link to help keep it going. Go on – what’s $20? Really?

• The SGI FAQs were at http://www-viz.tamu.edu/~sgi-faq/index.html

  This site now appears to be dead, so check the local mirrors at http://www.siliconbunny.com/mirrors/www-viz.tamu.edu/sgi-faq/index.html

• Ian Mapleson’s excellent SGI Tech pages – the place to go for SGI information.

  Ian has performance and model information for pretty much anything MIPS-based that SGI have produced. Lots of information comparing different systems, performance information, and old SGI press releases – you must have a look through here before you buy an SGI machine.

• Christopher Spry’s excellent SGI Indy/IRIX administration pages can be found at http://www.cspry.co.uk/computing/Indy_admin/Indy_admin_index.html

  A local mirror is available here

• Scott Henry maintains a very useful page covering how to install and configure PPP under IRIX. It used to be found on Reality at http://reality.sgi.com/scotth/remac/ppp-irix.config.html

  A local mirror can be found here

• Douglas Scott’s SGI Audio Apps page used to be found at http://reality.sgi.com/dscott/audio.apps/index.html.

  A local mirror can be found here

• Swift Grigg’s Indy ISDN FAQ can be found at http://www.reputable.com/textfiles/indyisdn.txt

• Reputable Systems has the excellent IndyTech pages, which have a very thorough summary of the SGI Indy.

• Jodeman’s SGI Stuff pages have been rescued by B&B Solutions, at http://www.bbsolutions.com/jodeman/

  A local mirror can be found here

• Chris Pirazzi’s The Lurker’s Guide to Video can be found at http://www.lurkertech.com/lg/index.html

  A local mirror can be found here

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