Evening on IRIS Indigo
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I have decided to rest a bit so I turned on my SGI IRIS Indigo (and old
computer without access  to the contemporary WWW  or e-mail), connected
my Psion Series 3a and tried to download some files which I made on the
Psion some time ago (a few spreadsheets and some texts).

As I  had a problem with  keyboard driver (it was  runing in background
and refused to stop  and to free the serial port) I  had to search with
the Google (they  still maintain a http:// search page!).  I have found
an old  FAQ pages by Professor  MacKay. After solving of  my problem (I
finally did a  reset - I never  needed it so I didn't  know until today
that the small black  hole above the "On" key is  the reset hole...). I
also looked at  other Professor's pages (it turned out  that he died in
2016 and the pages are kept for archive reasons only). It seems that he
had his PSION  even in 2011 (the  last change of PSION  section is from
2011) and he used it with his workstation (I didn't find any mention of
workstation brand  - but  I assume  than he  had a  Sun machine  as his
serial port was named "/dev/ttyb").

Also  found a  nice book  and other  teaching/learning materials  here.
Learned a  little about this  interesting gentleman.  So it has  been a
good find anyway. And got my files from the Psion, by the way.


And, of course, I wrote this text on the Indigo.