90s Unix Workstations

A friend of mine had one of these in the late 90s:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_1600SW

I think Sun workstations did that in the 80s or 90s.

I had an SGI Indigo back in the mid-90s, and it functioned fine as a Unix workstation, as well as being very useful for the weather satellite imagery work I was doing. It ran circles around the Sun machines I had access to at the time.

It was on an SGI workstation, IIRC.

That quote makes me nostalgic for Silicon Graphics workstations.

In the mid 90s, I had been working on an SGI Indigo for a couple of years (3d post facility in London). We were in line for a hardware upgrade, and my junior colleague wanted us to switch to a Windows PC setup. From price / performance, it was hard to argue against it. I loved SGI hardware though, it was sad it fell by the wayside somewhat.

I was kind of right the exact age to see all this happen all while I was in college.Fall 95 enter freshman year and we had Indys and IBM RS6000s as the main workstations on campus. Really great setup where you could sit at any workstation and all your stuff just worked and your whole environment seamlessly migrated. The only thing you had to do was if you were compiling your own stuff you'd have to recompile it for the machine you sat down at.SGI brought a demo truck to campus in t

This is cool story! My uni's lab was all SGIs, IBM Risc 6000s and Sun workstations.But I visited the lab for the first time in 25 years last week and everything got replaced by cheap PCs... :(The 90s was perhaps the last gasp of high end, branded PCs. Man, these were some good looking computers. Try keeping your SGI in good shape, perhaps it will find its way to a museum one day.

Nostalgia:At my first software development job in the mid 90s, the "cool" basement room with all of the smart/weird developers in it had a a mix of Sun SPARCstation 10/20 and Sun Ultra 1 workstations.There was also this one weird SGI O2 they had just bought to port their software to the IRIX platform, but noone wanted really wanted to use it, because of IRIX. So I picked that workstation, just to be in that room. Smartest decision of my life - what I learned in there de

I got the chance of using an SGI Fuel in the early 2000's and also some O2's. I don't know exactly why, I never bought one, I don't even like proprietary or closed solutions but those 90's UNIX workstations... I have an unreasonable attraction to them.I remember in mid 90's trying some of them for the first time. I've got really impressed by Sun sparcstations and IBM Power machines. Computers which you could spend the whole day programming with no threat to