Ignite Your Mind <insert guitar riff here>

Posted September 20, 2004

I got another SGI Indy from an IRC mate over the weekend, and it came with an external CD-ROM and a set of IRIX 6.5 CDs. Whoo hoo!

It's a pretty low spec machine (100MHz processor; the slowest that Indys came with) but this one has a working startup sound. It's a cool little tune that's stored in hardware. It must be in the PROM.

In my search for the WAV file sample, I came across a bunch of SGI promotional songs that were used in the late 90's. They shipped on a promo CD that you got when you bought an Octane. They are seriously funny-as. Check out "Ignite Your Mind" and "I Have a Dream."

Some classic lines including:

Ignite your mind
To the promise of power
Ignite your mind
In seconds, not hours

I used to us Pee Cees
That's when those bean counters use to run the show
Don't get me wrong, PCs are great
Runnin' MS Word you need time to wait
'Cos PCs make you wait...

and

I have a dream, and it's two CPUs
What this will mean, is no more desktop blues
Modelling and rendering, designing, analysing
Just pick any two.

I have a dream, and it's called a cross bar switch,
What this will mean, is no big data-glitch
Peer to peer have no fear, get data in and out of here
Just with the flick of a switch

She goes on to dream about graphics pipes too. Yes, it's a chick singing ;) I mean really... not even I dream about cross bar swtiches.

5 Comments so far

  1. Jason - opAsx on September 20th, 2004

    hehehe, i have to admit the start-up tune was the only reason i grabbed the box when it was for sale… I had to have it.

    Also my lil bro said he has the power cables for it still. I think he stole them for some dumb reaosn, if you need them I will scrounge some more up.

    Im just happy someone can use it and it stops sitting in my workshop doing nothing :)

  2. mlambie on September 20th, 2004

    I’ve got power cables coming out my ears so that’s no problem.

    I spent 5 minutes messing with the hard disk trying to get the IRIX installer to find it, but it was whinging about a missing swap space. I ended up throwing Debian on it (Sarge, and it’s still loading as I type). It’s going to be a NoCatAuth server in a project I’m working on at the moment with work.

    Thanks again Jason!

  3. Hale on September 20th, 2004

    You do dream about IP packet headers though. Nerd :P

  4. Fitzy on September 21st, 2004

    That’s the truth :)

  5. mlambie on September 21st, 2004

    IP Monkeys, whatever they are…