Power Series

From: Tothwolf <tothwolf_at_concentric.net>
Date: Thu Dec 27 00:08:46 2001

On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, Christopher Smith wrote:
> > From: Tothwolf [mailto:tothwolf_at_concentric.net]
>
> > The video really was nice for its day, but a lack of texture memory
> > somewhat limits it for today's graphics intensive software.
>
> Well, on one hand, yes, but on the other hand, I like my Indigo 2 Elan with
> no texture memory just fine. I'm also considering trying to dig up a
> reality engine for the thing, at which point it would have texture memory.

I didn't know you had another SGI box ;)

A couple people I've known who ended up with old SGI gear thought they
were going to create some kind of fancy animations with this kind of
hardware, so I never know what to think now.

> > What color is the wrap-around part on the front/top of the
> > machine? The
> > standard colors that I'm familiar with are; blue for a VGX,
> > red for a GTX,
> > and green for GT.
>
> It's blue.

Sounds like you at least have an original VGX chassis then. It is possible
someone upgraded some of the boards, but the only way you'll be able to
tell is to pull them and cross reference the part numbers.

-Toth
Received on Thu Dec 27 2001 - 00:08:46 GMT