Anyone in New York want a fully loaded SGI Onyx2 workstation?

[ibi sum]

Well I hear what you are saying ..

Yet I am having a blast watching Flynn hack away on every 8bit machine in the house and just know that in a year or so, those old machines, still working, are going to be as interesting to him as they ever were to me .. And that's the point of it, Peter.  High end 3D graphics is not something that a 6 year old needs to try to harness (although of course he does get entertained by it), but an 8 bit number system that can be used to describe sprites and colors, and which can be used to learn basic reading and writing skills without requiring a commitment to a GUI: still quite a useful educational tool.

IMHO, of course, but lets ask Flynn about it in a few years time.


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On Sep 2, 2013, at 20:40, Peter Korsten <peter at severity-one.com> wrote:

> Op 2-9-2013 16:23, Jay Vaughan schreef:
> 
>>> Just looked up the specs... it has about 1/50th the performance of my ageing GTX 580 when it comes to drawing triangles.
>> And?
> 
> That, in my opinion, it's a mistake to go back to old computer systems, for old times' sake. I did this when I had an Amiga, and played a C64 game that I had enjoyed back in the day. I didn't enjoy it any longer.
> 
> So I cherish the memories, and I'll never sell my A500 (not that anybody would spend a dime on it anyway), but for me it's the memories, not the systems themselves.
> 
> - Peter
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