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Take a trip back to the early days of video conferencing with Silicon Graphics InPerson, a pioneering software suite from the mid-1990s! In this episode, I dive into the rarely-seen SGI InPerson software, originally built for IRIX workstations like the Indy and O2. Watch as I dig up legacy installation media, decode cryptic documentation, and fight to get PeoplePages running across machines using multicast and NFS—just to simulate what real-time conferencing looked like before Zoom was even an idea. Whether you're into UNIX workstations, retro networking, or just curious about how advanced SGI really was in the '90s, this one’s for you—a hands-on look at how people tried to connect over video... 30 years ago. 📅 Next time on THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR: Pure 80s Throwback: Windws/286 on the IBM PC! 🔔 Subscribe for more retro hardware adventures! 00:00 Intro 00:28 Video Conferencing - A 100-years Journey 03:12 Getting SGI InPerson for IRIX 6.5 03:56 Getting SGI InPerson for IRIX 5.3 07:16 Resolving Issues With Inaccessible Documantion 08:48 PeoplePages: Installing & Configuring the Server 14:59 PeoplePages: Client Configuration 15:52 Make An InPerson Video Call 19:02 Conclusion Want to join THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS or THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS community and get a mention in an upcoming video? Learn more here: https://www.youtube.com/@THEPHINTAGECOLLECTOR/join This video was made possible with support by: THE PHINTAGE ENTHUSIASTS: Alisha Manuela Stutz @alishamanuelastutz Christian Zerrahn @JARVIS1187 David Shell @TheMinocula Waseem al sammane @wsammane THE PHINTAGE SUPPORTERS: HMK @hmichaelkraut7968 Jack Rosenthal @JackRosenthal1 Luke Granger-Brown @luke_gb Matthew Veety @MatthewVeety MS-DOS Manfred @msdosm4nfred Steven Glogger @sglogger Tim Hull @hulltim2 Wobinu Films @WobinuFilms xcalibur839 @xcalibur839 Z098 @Z098 Visit also THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR website at https://www.thephintagecollector.ch for insights into my retro computer collection. Copyright @ 2025 THE PHINTAGE COLLECTOR, Gianpaolo Del Matto. All rights reserved. Individual Copyrights apply for referenced material (see links). Music composed by 🎶 Abdallah El-Ghannam | https://www.fiverr.com/abdallahghannam 🎶 rootkitty | https://soundcloud.com/rootkitty ℹ️ Links: About SGI InPerson: https://archive.irixnet.org/siliconsurf/news/mar_04.html https://web.archive.org/web/19970605193302/http://www.sgi.com/Products/inperson_main.html https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?attachments/inperson-desktop-conferencing-pdf.2443 https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~hgs/rtp/inperson.html https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/installing-inperson-on-irix-6-5-30.1190/ SGI InPerson Sources: https://archive.org/download/in-person-2 https://fsck.technology/software/Silicon%20Graphics/Software/SGI%20InPerson%202.0%20%2B%20Iris%20Annotator%201.0/ https://archive.org/download/irix.-applications https://archive.org/details/desktop-special-edition-1.0-for-support-customers About SGI Indy & IndyCam: https://www.sunhelp.org/unixworld/SGI-Indy-UW111993.pdf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy#cite_note-ED_Video_input-16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QuickCam About SGI O2Cam: https://techpubs.jurassic.nl/library/manuals/3000/007-3545-002/sgi_html/apd.html Technology Insights: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videotelephony https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISDN https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#Evolution_of_dial-up_speeds Pre-WW2 Germany Video Telephone: https://saxarchiv.hypotheses.org/7874 90s Video Conferencing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CU-SeeMe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_NetMeeting SGI IRIX Revision History: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX#Versionsgeschichte https://de-m-wikipedia-org.translate.goog/?_x_tr_sl=de&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp&_x_tr_hist=true#Versionsgeschichte SGI Meeting: https://tech-pubs.net/SGI_EndUser/books/SGImeeting_UG/overview.html