Old versions of irix.

[joshyfishy22]

Hello everyone, Iv been on a hunt to find old versions of irix (Older than 4.0.5) and GL-2 and any software that will run on either. Sadly its been really hard to find just about anything. I was just wondering what everyone has found?

I'm mainly looking for anything that can run on 3.3.2 and versions of 4d1-2

 

[pauliedweasel]

I seem to recall having a copy of an older version IRIX that was on a tape cartridge, I’ll see if I can find it.
I moved from California to Arizona in 2021 and my SGI stuff fills up about 2/3s of my two car garage so
it might take me a while to find it. Feel free to message me at 818-205-7287 every so often and bug me
as a reminder to look for it. I just unpacked seven wardrobe boxes full of SGI stuff, mostly parts, and I’ve
still got twelve 24” cubed boxes full of various SGI items to go through but at least I now have the extra
shelving to put it on and I’ve been digging into it for the past two weeks. At least I finally found my two SGI
1400s, I had to leave them for the movers due to a time crunch but at least I got all my Octanes, Indigo 2s,
Indys, O2s and my 230s, 320s, 330s, 540s, 550s, and Zx10s moved my self. It’s been a real pain!

 

[pauliedweasel]

Is this what you’re looking for? In my previous reply I mentioned that the software was on a tape cartridge but I later realized I was thinking of a version of Excel for Unix I have. Fortunately these are on 5 1/4 floppy.

 

[weblacky]

Given their rarity, you should consider just imaging them (DD) and uploading them to archive.org.

 

[joshyfishy22]

These actually have never been archived and there has never been a complete set of gl2 install disks archived. The T in the version name says its for the IRIS graphics terminals which software actually has never been archived. So this is historical!

I am going to use a grease weasel to create a flux image of the disks. Ill post them everywhere i can!

And if anyone has anything else they need help archiving please let me know. I would gladly do it!

 

[joshyfishy22]

Hello everyone. I received the GL2-T2.4 disks and took a flux image of each of the disks. The Disk images are byte swapped and some other strange things. But here is the full images. From my knowledge this is the only archive of not only GL2 2.4 But the only archive of terminal software for the irises.

https://mega.nz/file/xCFDRJjS#Fe81vudryNAbczblaa-SEIgDcZhADGzN01giwHKZCik

Web archive link
https://archive.org/details/GL2-T2.4

 

[stormy]

Perhaps put them on archive.org since mega.nz links don't hang around forever, nice find!

 

[legodude]

http://tenox.pdp-11.ru/os/irix/IRIX_CDs/

Looks to be some older versions here

mike

 

[joshyfishy22]

Thanks mike. It looks like there is some stuff that I don't have in my archive. Ill mirror that directory!