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My SGI Octane! (lemmy.sdf.org)
submitted 2 years ago by praetor@lemmy.sdf.org to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org
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I turned my Octane into a bad ass workstation for cruising the deep web :D

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[–] attero@feddit.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Does it swing with performance?

[–] praetor@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

It's pretty skippy for a 20 year old machine. It's an octane 2 with a 400 Mhz processor.

[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Is there a way to browse SSL websites on this version of IRIX?

[–] praetor@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

Yup. We ported netsurf to IRIX a while ago which is a nice little browser that does SSL.

[–] underscorner@feddit.it 1 points 2 years ago

awesome! are you running irix or linux ?

[–] Nisaea@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh dear, the mushrooms in the background!!!! I think I still have that picture somewhere! :D

[–] Borgzilla@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

I remember having this wallpaper back in the early 00s. Really cool wallpaper :)

[–] praetor@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

AHAHA. Gotta have the digital blasphemy background for the late 90s vibe!

[–] Sailor_jets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I have 2 octane's. Both would be better utilized as boat anchors. Cool to see one working!

[–] praetor@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, git 'em fixed!

[–] Sailor_jets@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 years ago

I would like to, that's why I bought them lol. It's just that those fragile connectors kinda freak me out and from what I read I need a special monitor? I don't know too much about SGI machines since most of my collection are IBM/IBM compats.

[–] esm@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What web browser is that?

[–] praetor@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 years ago

NetSurf we ported it to IRIX a while ago :D