SGI IRIS 2400 (1985)
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN shares it as a classic glimpse of early SGI hardware graphics in retro-computing and IRIX threads.
What it is
A short demo reel of the 1985 Silicon Graphics IRIS 2400 workstation animating flat-shaded polygons on a 68010 CPU. It shows the early SGI graphics that preceded their later fame.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2013 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Cites kristopolous · 2013-11 · on “Don't use 1234 as your password”
I found a 68K SGI Iris 2400 machine up and running in college in about 2004. It had a sticker with the hostname on it. Later on that week, I went to the department homepage, got the staff roster and tried to guess the usernames. I telnetted to port 25 and tried RCPT TO hypothesized names, like so $ telnet host 25 MAIL FROM: a@a.com 250 Sender OK RCPT TO: afranks 550 Recipient not found RCPT TO: arty.franks 250 Recipient OK ... With this list of usernames I logged into the FTP to try to guess trivial passwords: $ telnet host 21 USER arty.franks User OK PASS 1234 Login failed PASS password ... Eventually I got a valid username/password combo. Now I can just telnet <host> and log in. I got a li
Cites kloch · 2023-05 · on “Can SGI’s Enthusiast Community Bring IRIX Back to Life?”
Classic SGI demo video from 1985: [this video] I remember when my dad brought a VHS copy of this home. I couldn't believe the high-res smooth color graphics.
Cites luciusdomitius · 2023-09 · on “XFCE Wayland Development Roadmap”
XFCE is frankly the last full featured Desktop Environment, truly focusing on responsiveness and zero-lag SGI-style: [this video] MacOS X, Windows and the mainstream Linux DEs have nice animations, but it is fun watching them the first day. After that it is just annoying. Really hope that Wayland integration works well for them.