I'm the proud owner of an Ultra-1. It's 64 bits, but this particular machine doesn't really fly in 64 bits mode (needs an U-2 for that). Anyway, it works great,

I'm the proud owner of an Ultra-1. It's 64 bits, but this particular machine doesn't really fly in 64 bits mode (needs an U-2 for that). Anyway, it works great, and currently run dnetc :) I also have an SGI Octane (a wonderful machine, really) and an Indy (unfortunately this one recently failed self-tests, though it's only 17 years old). I still enjoy the noise coming from the Octane TRAMs under load :) These unix boxen used to cost 10000 to 50 000 bucks when I used them professionally, that's a particular sort of pervert pleasure to own them for almost nothing :) edit: I just dug up the Silicon Graphics product sales guide from 1996. It gives list prices from SGI, Sun, HP, IBM, DEC workstations: all in the 9-16K$ range for the base configuration (double for proper RAM, screen, etc). The software from Alias|Wavefront and friends, however, was mind-bogglingly expensive : up to 75000$. So a fully loaded workstation with a complete software pack was well in the 100000$ range.