they don't make 'em like they used to

Wednesday, June 18, 2003, at 10:33AM

By Eric Richardson

Just to settle a personal question, I brought a scale down here to weigh the old SGI Personal IRIS 4D/25 I have. The box with monitor totaled in at a hefty 122 pounds. The box itself was 66 of that, the monitor clocking in the remaining 56.

Eric Richardson lives in Atlanta, Georgia, where he works on payments infrastructure for Cash App.

Past lives involved streaming audio for Southern California Public Radio, running a hyperlocal news site for Downtown Los Angeles, working on custom mapping code, and writing Perl at the Jet Propulsion Labratory.

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