IRIX Blender 2.49a

A new version of Blender for IRIX was recently released, putting us at version 2.49a of the excellent freeware 3D graphics application. As it was fairly cool this morning, I gave the application a quick launch check on my Tezro (screenshot below). … [...]

Prototype Apple Disk III

It’s been a long time since I’ve posted something, but not for lack of things going on in both the SGI/IRIX and general retrocomputing world. I’ve picked up numerous machines, books and peripherals over the past few months, but most o… [...]

Joy Of Groovy

In my work and my volunteer, I need to do a lot of scripting for all kinds of things such as system administration, data migration etc. I have used shell script, perl and many other tools on and off for a long time before. Scripting with Groovy brings me much joy and fun. Groovy brings the [...] [...]

The very moment they landed on the Moon

I was 6 years old when man reached the moon. I barely remind those days : sure they must have been very exciting for those in the age of reason. Today I’m looking back at that accomplishment as the result of spirit of adventure, bravery, stupidi… [...]

I'M Back

Hi There, Well it's 4 days post Milton ham fest , I had a fun time there dodging rain drops ha ha , oh well a good time was had by all didn't spend a house full of loot just a bit , some new stuff for my handheld radio and an antenna for same … [...]