I made time Friday to get the Indy set up once again. The one thing I really need is an external SCSI CD-rom, which I don't have one that functions any more. Jerry, a fellow member of our local Amiga users group and all around nice guy, offered to help - and I had the intention of driving up to his place and picking it up. Well...
2 things happened - First, Rich (Amiga Round Table Podcast co-host and originator) contacted me say that we needed to move the recording session 2 hours earlier from 1PM to 11AM on Saturday. I just wouldn't have been able to do both. Secondly - I had a few rounds at the bar and was hungover most of the next day
My Indy has a fairly well-stocked hard drive that came with it when I bought it on ebay years ago. I don't know about you all - but that kind of stuff usually ends up driving me nuts. I like to know exactly what I have on my drive, configure the desktop how I like, etc. So I really would like to do a fresh install once I get the Cd-Rom drive. Some of the programs I have to work with are: NetscapeMail (yikes! I think I may just use PINE), Mozilla 1.0, Photoshop SGI, Abiword, Open Office. So most of the core productivity apps are covered. Mozilla is a bit sluggish - But it will do.
While being hungover and watching TV yesterday afternoon I decided to watch a late 90's Nuclear/Terrorist/Action flick called the Peacemaker. It was um... kinda bad... but the ironic thing was that movie had an SGI Indy or Indigo in any scene with a computer. So I thought that was pretty cool and also a bit weird.
So in short - I am not quite ready to move forward yet - I really want to get the hardware set - add more RAM too) and also get more accomplished with Irix 6.5 as well - lots of things I just don't know yet. So far I think Irix kicks ass and I hope to have some screenshots soon.
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