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Tech-Pubs.net, or TechPubs, is a public wiki cataloging the hardware of the former Silicon Graphics Corporation.

Getting Started

Setting up IRIX/Familiarization

• IRIX 101

• Installing IRIX

• IRIX Setup 101

Setting up Software

• How To Find Commercial Software

• Open Source Software (See Software Section)

Communities for Help

• IRIXNet

• Reddit

• SGUG

Peripherals

• Firewire

• USB

• Serial Tablets

• Tape Drives

Events

• Vintage Computer Festival

• IRIXNet Proposed Swap Meet

Resellers

• SGIDepot

• Mashek

• B&B Solutions

Hardware

68k-based SGIs (GL2 era)

• 68k-based SGIs (IRIS Series)

MIPS-based SGIs (IRIX era)

• Professional IRIS

• Personal IRIS

• IRIS Indigo

• Power Series

• Crimson

• Indy

• Challenge S

• Indigo2

• Onyx

• Origin 200

• Onyx2

• Origin 2000

• Octane

• O2

• Origin 3000

• Fuel

• Origin 300

• Origin 350

• Tezro

x86-based SGIs

• Visual Workstation 320

• Visual Workstation 540

• Visual Workstation Rebrands

Itanium (IA-64) based SGIs

• SGI 750

• Altix 350

• Altix 330

• Prism

Software

IRIX Major Versions

• IRIX 6.5

• IRIX 6.2

• IRIX 5.3

• IRIX 4.0

4D1 Versions

• 4D1-3.x

GL2 Versions

• GL2-3.x

• GL2-2.x

• GL2-1.x

RISC/OS

• RISC/OS

Development Information

• IRIS Development Option (IRIX 6.2 and prior)

• MIPSPro (IRIX 6.5.x)

• GCC

• optxeno

Open Source Distributions

• SGI Freeware

• Nekoware

• SGUG RSE

IRIX Minor Versions

• IRIX 5.0 and 5.1

• IRIX 6.0 and 6.1

News

05/23/2025 - Elf's Indy Power Supply Information has been added. This will be supplemented with a broken out HTML page in "The Lost Chapters" on archive.irixnet.org in the future.

09/16/2025 - Restoration WIP - Our host scuttled and broke our data, so I'm forced to manually restore everything!

Policies and Information

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About the TechPubs Wiki

Copyright Information

Tutorials

• IRIX 101

• Setting up NFS

• How to Find Commercial Software • Porting Software to IRIX • SSH Setup for 6.5

• IRIX Gigabit Card Hack

Articles Needing Attention

Stub Articles

Articles Needing Images

SGI in Popular Culture

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