Silicon Graphics Boot tunes -> if you can help me please ...!!! <==

[Jonathan]

Hello
A few years ago I visited "the National Museum of Science and Technology"
and I briefly looked at a silicon graphics computer then. Upon powering it
on it played a tune. Im told the different machienes (indy, indigo...) play
different tunes., Im pretty sure the system was a purple machiene, anyways
these machienes are somewhat available on ebay, and this one looked pretty
cool, I think it would be neat to pick one up off ebay to check out,
possibly look at irix. When it booted it showed a list of files booting
up... If anyone could help me out to find out what one it was, could they
record the boot tune to a tape then back to the computer or anything like
that and send me it plz! thanks - Jonathan
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blackt...@netscape.net

[Jonathan]

btw...
museum was in Ottawa, Canada...
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[James Stutts]

"Jonathan" <blackt...@netscape.net> wrote in message
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> Hello
> A few years ago I visited "the National Museum of Science and
Technology"
> and I briefly looked at a silicon graphics computer then. Upon powering it
> on it played a tune. Im told the different machienes (indy, indigo...)
play
> different tunes., Im pretty sure the system was a purple machiene, anyways
> these machienes are somewhat available on ebay, and this one looked pretty

You're going to have to narrow it down a bit from "purple machine" and
"SGI".

JCS

[Ming]

this is the first time I hear someone want a computer because itz boot tune?
well, you see EVEN boot tune sgi is more superior than other machine. Good
luck at finding the machine you want and success on learning irix.
Regards
MING

p.s if you can go back to the museum, and look at the machine boot up again:
When bootup, all sgi machine will tell you what it is with a BIG logo
saying: Octane, Indigo2...etc

[James Stutts]

"James Stutts" <stu...@knology.net> wrote in message
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Jonathan,

Try this link and see if you recognize the machine you saw:

http://www.reputable.com/sgipix.html

JCS

[Jonathan]

Thanks, Ive looked at every picture of an sgi on the page(s) , none were
similar at all, it was about the size of an indy, but the color of the
Purple Indigo. The sound file.zip contained the sounds of the different
systems, but none were close, the sound upon powering on was more of a
'guitar' chorus.... are there any other manufactures other than SGI that use
a boot tune? or will this machiene remain a mystery?? thanks guys for the
help, let me know if you can think of anything else : )- Jonathan

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[Mobilare]

My guess is that the SGIs use a midi file that is played during boot up.
Irix always had the prettiest boot up in the biz to me. I would love to get my linux
box to play a midi tune and give me a nice color boot up screen.

[James Stutts]

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> Thanks, Ive looked at every picture of an sgi on the page(s) , none were
> similar at all, it was about the size of an indy, but the color of the
> Purple Indigo. The sound file.zip contained the sounds of the different

Then it wasn't an SGI. The only Indy-size machines were the Indy and the
Challenge S.
Same color for both (blue). The only other pizzabox style case in purple
was the Indigo2. It isn't the same
color as the Indigo. (One version of the Indigo2 was purple, the other one
teal.)

JCS

[Brent Casavant]

On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Jonathan wrote:

> Thanks, Ive looked at every picture of an sgi on the page(s) , none were
> similar at all, it was about the size of an indy, but the color of the
> Purple Indigo. The sound file.zip contained the sounds of the different
> systems, but none were close, the sound upon powering on was more of a
> 'guitar' chorus.... are there any other manufactures other than SGI that use
> a boot tune? or will this machiene remain a mystery?? thanks guys for the
> help, let me know if you can think of anything else : )- Jonathan

If it was a guitar chorus it was definitely an R10K Indigo^2. Bigger
than an Indy by a decent margin, and definitely purple. I have no
doubt that's the machine you heard.

IP20 (R4K Indigo) Chime/bells
IP22 (R4K Indigo2) Piano sounds
IP22 (Indy) Orchestra/brass hits
IP26 (R8K Indigo2) ??? (I've never heard one boot)
IP28 (R10K Indigo2) Guitar (several tunes available, see prom(1M))
IP30 (Octane) Electric piano
IP32 (O2) Harp

I'll see what I can do to get copies of all the boot sounds (directly
from the source trees) and post them somewhere. The R4K Indigo2, the
Indy, and the Octane are the only ones where the source file is in
a standard format (AIFF), so it might take some hard work to get all
the other machine's boot tunes into a usable format (some of them are
data for FM synthesis algorithms). But I will certainly work on it
for you.

Brent

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Brent Casavant Silicon Graphics, Inc. If you had nothing to fear,
IRIX O.S. Engineer Eagan Minnesota, USA how then could you be brave?
bcas...@sgi.com http://www.sgi.com/ -- Queen Dama, Source Wars