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But I watched what the guys were doing with it. Played with the various graphics demos, mostly. All dumped.īack to the Onyx - when it came out in 1993 I had some access to one, I worked in the same computer room for weeks at the time on an off. And a Fuel.Īt work we had a bunch of Origin servers as well. Smaller is more manageable of course - I have a number of O2, O2+, Indy computers and an Octane. I could have put the rack in my basement, but I'm not young anymore and it wouldn't be that many years before it would be a headache to get it out. As in: I could have it if I wanted it, I used it for years but it had to go when it was obsoleted. I personally decided to dump a Challenge (basically an Onyx without the Reality Engine graphics: ). Would love to get one and play with them.Ī lot of them (probably the vast majority) simply got dumped, alas. > I wonder where all those machines ended up. That auction hall looked like a 'revenge of the nerds' casting call. IIRC it eventually went for a few thousand. Then some other people started bidding, I got over excited and bid along up to a thousand euros or so and then I came to my senses and gave up. As mentioned I didn't know anything about IRIX or any non-free Unix basically, nor did I have money or a place to put such a machine, but I just shouted out '250 euros!' and the auctioneer looked relieved that at least someone was going to take this thing off his hands. Everybody was sort of looking at each other with shifty eyes, waiting for someone else to make a move. Most of the stuff sold quite quickly, then when the Onyx went up, nobody wanted to bid. Complete with smell from the remaining functioning animal stables on the rest of the farm (which was still an actual functioning farm). It was a massive auction, ranging from pallets full of backup tapes to stuff like this fridge size Onyx (looking at the Onyx wikipedia page, maybe it was actually two Onyx's in a rack, like the image for Onyx 2? Or maybe it actually was an Onyx 2? I didn't know anything about theses things, just that they looked cool, and they were legendary among us first wave Linux adopters, which most 'real Unix' folk at the time still looked down on).Īnyway there was so much stuff to be sold, that the normal auction house didn't have enough storage, so they had to move to an actual (disused) pig sty in the same village. Apparently, this guy had dressed up as an Army general, gone to all sorts of companies in the first dot com boom, and gotten them to deliver all sorts of 'samples' to a fake dropoff point which he then sold on. Thanks all and see you soon, wait and see so stay tuned.I once (2001) almost bought an Onyx at an auction where the ill-gotten stock (rather, what was left of it) of a con man who had managed to swindle a lot of computer companies out of all sorts of gear was sold. It is good thing that Blackdot will be free software and open source so all are nice !ġ/ phase : Rewrite to all Gui in more modern as Softimage XSIĤ/ phase : Write new to Modeler as OOP systemįrom now i am coding to all tools for common system to be ready to write for Gui and then working in phase 2 as wip, etc.Īnd don't ask me to take Blender source code to make Softimage because it is writing in C and Python I don't want to waste time, I am writing in C++ purely in 100% so it is not compatibl. I will be more carefully to design my system and to avoid from error to linking compile time, I am working in C++ fully and purely as OOP system with all class to make complex but more easier than ever before. Ok, I am rewriting from scratch now so i removed old branch dev(1996), my new branch(2020) is nice for better visibility but it is not yet published from the time being, all codes are more modern and it is heavily in wip It is not 100% clone but so close it, somes tools have similar other not, so I make as I can. Good news for you and you want Softimage so it is here !īlackdot is a fork from Moonlight Creator and it look like old Softimage, so I have the base for old source code (abandonned in 1996) and thank from source code I will try to mimic as Softimage XSI