Lawrence D'Oliveiro
2024-03-23 03:36:25 UTC
Originally from NZ, he lives in the US somewhere with a huge barn, full of
vintage computing hardware, plus a small corner where his wife can do her
scrapbooking <https://www.youtube.com/@jpkiwigeek>.
The channel hasn’t been inactive in some years. Somewhere in there you
will see his attempts at getting a monstrous SGI server cluster,
consisting of 5 graphics/video units coupled to 5 computing units (each
the size of, say, a hotel room minifridge), to start up properly with one
computing unit always consistently in control, until he has to give up
because the power supply has failed.
Still trying to understand the point of that 1990s hardware with
multiboard graphics units positively bristling with video connections--I
think they were to do real-time graphics rendering direct to videotape.
vintage computing hardware, plus a small corner where his wife can do her
scrapbooking <https://www.youtube.com/@jpkiwigeek>.
The channel hasn’t been inactive in some years. Somewhere in there you
will see his attempts at getting a monstrous SGI server cluster,
consisting of 5 graphics/video units coupled to 5 computing units (each
the size of, say, a hotel room minifridge), to start up properly with one
computing unit always consistently in control, until he has to give up
because the power supply has failed.
Still trying to understand the point of that 1990s hardware with
multiboard graphics units positively bristling with video connections--I
think they were to do real-time graphics rendering direct to videotape.