I bet a lot of the interest is from people like me who grew up with home computers in the 80s and 90s. In the old days Silicon Graphics had this almost mythica

I bet a lot of the interest is from people like me who grew up with home computers in the 80s and 90s. In the old days Silicon Graphics had this almost mythical reputation. As a kid with a home computer I used to daydream about one day getting my hands on an SGI, what kind of games I'd be able to make on it. The computer scene was more fragmented back then. Graphics Workstations sat apart from home computers, and the ordinary Amiga or C64 user would only read about them in magazines or see them featured in TV shows about movie special effects. If you liked computer graphics, these TV shows and articles were like glimpses ten years into the future. Because of this, SGI became a byword for "amazingly cool computer with powerful, exotic graphics hardware that I will never get my hands on" Many of us hoped that one day we'd be playing video games on an SGI home computer or vr deck.