Maya <v4.0 on SGI O2?

[Old-school-cool]

Hi all,

I’m trying to restore an old SGI O2 for running very old versions of Maya to relive a meaningful and special time in my life in the late 1900s. I’m looking for install media because the drive in it from 1997 was dead when I purchased it. While I wait for the new drive to deliver, I’m planning next moves. I think a copy of Maya 2.5 will be the sweet spot for this machine. I remember 2.5 being a good one. I also remember the O2 being reasonably nice, even if it wasn’t the most powerful.

Can anybody help me with the correct old version of IRIX and a very old copy of Maya that works with this less than powerful O2?

 

[Old-school-cool]

The O2 has an R5000SC 180MHz (512K L2) CPU and 4x 32MB memory modules of mixed SGI and Kingston. No interesting graphics options are installed but it has a 10/100 second NIC. It seems like a perfectly respectable starting place for me, but for my goal with Maya I’m going to need to stay light weight and probably use very early versions.

Thank you in advance!

 

[3DChris]

That machine and Maya setup sounds almost exactly like the specs of when I was learning Maya in school. I believe we started with v1.5, or 2.0... Can't remember. The machine was definitely an O2 at 180Mhz R5000 type processor and 128 MB of RAM. I remember at one point pulling more memory from other machines that weren't in use and upgrading my system, but it only helped a little bit.
Being new to Maya and SGI, I didn't really have any understanding of what was supposed to be "fast", but we all realized very quickly that these machines were very dated when we started and were severely outclassed by the PCs of the time. I even remember looking on the SGI website for used upgrades or systems and imagining the performance gains with those... I was very jealous of the Octane system that the school had set up for video editing and imagined what running Maya on that puppy was like. Now I know...I bought one for exactly the same reasons you are looking for Maya.
I'll take a look at my media at home, but I don't think I have anything IRIX. Oldest disks I have are 4.0 for PC (Mac maybe???)