Greetings, all!

I just got a rather large haul of vintage machines amd peripherals and some other random techy things. It started with me going to just get an Apple II Plus with some rare cards and grew into me having to leave some things because our vehicle was full... hoping to go back this weekend and grab a couple more. I made a video, and it is divided into chapters for easily hitting areas of interest. youtube.com/bollingholt

Hope you are all well!
Bo

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On 2026-11-03 21:46:00, Bo Holt wrote to All:

I just got a rather large haul of vintage machines amd peripherals and some other random techy things

Holly cow! That's a lot.

All I want is an SGI Tezro. One of these days.

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Petar Smilajkov wrote to Bo Holt <=-

All I want is an SGI Tezro. One of these days.

I've pretty much weaned myself off of classic hardware and have a couple
of virtualized systems when I feel nostalgic. I would like to have an
Octane or Visual workstation, though. Loved the hardware.

In the late 90s, I worked in an environment with SUN workstations for
mail and network services, a gaming graphics team on SGIs, and corporate environment on Windows NT. A handful of Macs for the marketing team.
That was a fun environment to work in.



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Holly cow! That's a lot.

All I want is an SGI Tezro. One of these days.

CloudDancer

It would be really cool to have some SGI equipment. It's out of my area of expertise, but I'd love some of the equipment used to make "Terminator 2"!

I think the only thing left for me to collect to rebuild my entire youthful collection is an Amstrad PC1512DD with a color display... with the disk drives that had the straight levers, preferably. I've been looking for one for a while.

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In the late 90s, I worked in an environment with SUN workstations for
mail and network services, a gaming graphics team on SGIs, and corporate environment on Windows NT. A handful of Macs for the marketing team.
That was a fun environment to work in.

Oh, I bet it was fun!

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Bo Holt wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

In the late 90s, I worked in an environment with SUN workstations for
mail and network services, a gaming graphics team on SGIs, and corporate environment on Windows NT. A handful of Macs for the marketing team.
That was a fun environment to work in.

Oh, I bet it was fun!

It was a gaming company - the company that created Tomb Raider. We were
working with ION Storm, the company that spun off from ID software, and
had a handful of other titles we worked on.

Our QA manager wheeled and dealed with other QA managers - he'd get the
latest video cards to test our games on, traded copies of our games for
Office licenses, Windows client access licenses, licenses for anything
he could get his hands on. Back when WinAMP was paid software, we had a
site license.

Gaming was encouraged in the office, and seeing suggestive Lara Croft
wallpapers on screens in an office finally became an issue after
complaints. Offices populated almost 24x7 during crunch periods.

Crazy times. I don't think I'd want to do that again, but being single
in San Francisco and in my 30s, it was a blast while it lasted.



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It was a gaming company - the company that created Tomb Raider. We were
working with ION Storm, the company that spun off from ID software, and
had a handful of other titles we worked on.

Our QA manager wheeled and dealed with other QA managers - he'd get the
latest video cards to test our games on, traded copies of our games for
Office licenses, Windows client access licenses, licenses for anything
he could get his hands on. Back when WinAMP was paid software, we had a
site license.

Gaming was encouraged in the office, and seeing suggestive Lara Croft
wallpapers on screens in an office finally became an issue after
complaints. Offices populated almost 24x7 during crunch periods.

Crazy times. I don't think I'd want to do that again, but being single
in San Francisco and in my 30s, it was a blast while it lasted.

I have always said I was born 10-15 years too late. I'm 45 and wish I had been old enough to catch that wave and work in an environment like that... when the industry was filled with real computer people and not so mainstream. Good times!

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On 2026-11-05 10:45:10, Kurt Weiske wrote to Petar Smilajkov:

In the late 90s, I worked in an environment with SUN workstations for mail and network services, a gaming graphics team on SGIs, and corporate environment on Windows NT. A handful of Macs for the marketing team. That was a fun environment to work in.

Man, never had anything like that. Jealous a bit ;)

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