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    Just picked up a couple SGIs - any new-owner advice?

    Do you mean this ( https://www.amazon.com/CablesOnline-SunMicro-Monitor-Switches-W3-606/dp/B0C2MBSLB1 )? I've seen that cable and it will turn the 13W3 into VGA, and it might be able to put some sort of sync on the right line, but I don't think a passive converter will be able to fully filter...
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    Just picked up a couple SGIs - any new-owner advice?

    I'm not very familiar with the original Indigo, but I just restored an Indigo2 very similar to yours: https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2025/09/refurb-weekend-silicon-graphics-indigo.html The Indigo2 is pretty tough. The power supplies do die, but recapping them needs to be done on the high-voltage...
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    Calling on Color Classic owners who own a TechStep

    Funny you should mention - I MITMed a number of transactions between my TechStep and various machines here in the shop and have traces of the communication. However, a lot of it is just uploading code to the machine and seeing what the result is, which makes forming a "unified theory" slow...
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    Tutorial: Streaming Youtube (or any video content) to PowerPC Macs

    Possibly. The ITVB worked that way (using a Pepto-Bismol shade of pink for "transparency").
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    Eric's Apple Network Server 700 tinker log

    That would do it. But it's interesting you made an AIX boot floppy that way. I'm interested to see what actually got on the floppy disk if you can image it before you restore it.
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    Eric's Apple Network Server 700 tinker log

    If it's always halting at "System initialization completed" it doesn't sound like it's executing any of the rc scripts. What does /etc/inittab look like? What rc files are in /etc? (rc.tcpip, rc.local, etc)
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    Eric's Apple Network Server 700 tinker log

    Start from the AIX CD. Once you have defined the local console (i.e., the monitor and ADB keyboard), from the Installation and Maintenance menu choose Start maintenance mode for system recovery, Access a Root Volume Group, choose your rootvg (I'm assuming you have only one), choose your file...
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    The Macintosh Application Environment on a PA-RISC laptop

    I decided to fire up MAE on my RDI PrecisionBook 160, a 160MHz PA-7300LC with 512MB of RAM and HP-UX 11. While I'm not game enough to possibly pollute my kernel with HP-UX 10.x AppleTalk drivers, not only does MAE run, it runs very well. I could even play Wolfenstein 3D on it better than my...
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    Eric's Apple Network Server 700 tinker log

    It's just an HD44780-style controller, no dot-addressable graphics. I'm not sure what's going on there, but it acts like there's something that didn't start in your rc scripts. What do they look like (in /etc)? You may have to boot from the AIX CD, mount the rootvg and pull up a shell to see.
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    Eric's Apple Network Server 700 tinker log

    When I did animations on the LCD panel for a VCF one year, ISTR I just used a lot of spaces. When CDE is booting, do you see the boot log window in the upper right corner?
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    Eric's Apple Network Server 700 tinker log

    I assume you mean 20GB - that looks like 8mm tape. You're the first one I've seen with that option. All of the rest of the ANSes I've encountered have DAT/DDS. What's the keyswitch set to? You could put it to the middle or right position and it should autostart on power-up. Alternatively, just...
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    Playing with a Recreated TechStep

    No, it's probably fine. Try hooking up a serial connection: for some reason at least some of the SE/30 ROMs do not support the *V command. The TechStep interprets that as a lost connection.
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    Canon Cat with additional sublegends

    Odd indeed! I wonder if someone had a side business modifying them. The video isn't too insightful about it though - I suspect he may have thought they were factory-original.
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    Canon Cat with additional sublegends

    Very interesting (I assume you meant Forth, though). I've never seen nor heard of this. They are clearly aftermarket. My best guess is the software had to run locally, since I don't think USE FRONT combinations get transmitted.
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    Setting up Internet Networking on a BlueSCSI v2 Pico W External Plugged into a PoweMac 6500/300 with Mac OS 9.1

    Yes, and I said above I have a CS2 Ethernet card in my own 6500 (and TAM, but that's just because it's based on the same architecture). They were still Apple's budget Power Macs regardless. If you wanted on-board Ethernet, Apple wanted you to buy an Outrigger or an 8xxx/9xxx.
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    Setting up Internet Networking on a BlueSCSI v2 Pico W External Plugged into a PoweMac 6500/300 with Mac OS 9.1

    Remember that the 6400 and 6500 were Apple's budget Power Macs for home users and Ethernet still wasn't common for home use then. They were the last Performas as well, after all.
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    Setting up Internet Networking on a BlueSCSI v2 Pico W External Plugged into a PoweMac 6500/300 with Mac OS 9.1

    I don't have an answer to your question, just drooling over the 300MHz. My own 6500 is 275MHz, though it has a 1MB cache and a CS2 Ethernet card.
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    PowerMac 7100 and Linux (and NetBSD)

    Is that *actual* Open Firmware, or a stub designed to present a faked-up OF device tree? If the latter, this originally existed as part of Cyberpunk, which was written for Shiner (and has OF) but prototyped on the 6100/7100/8100 (which don't)...
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    HAH!!!

    Not too hard, Commodore 1581 floppies are garden-variety MFM, so you only need to deal with the filesystem which is pretty easy to parse. But this poor guy has a 1541, so the only way would be a terminal program. I can't really tell what they're running.
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    Passing of Bill Atkinson

    Don't forget Magic Cap.
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