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Yep, the closest I ever got to a SGI was drooling over their product brochures as a kid. The cost of a modest Indy was about the same as a mid-range car. It's h
by jmwilson 5y ago
Yep, the closest I ever got to a SGI was drooling over their product brochures as a kid. The cost of a modest Indy was about the same as a mid-range car. It's hard to grasp as a modern PC user that these workstations could handle classes of problems that contemporary PCs could not, no matter what upgrades you did. Today, it would be like comparing a PC to a TPU-based (or similar ASIC) platform for computing.
From what I've read, Oxide is making racks of servers and has no interest in workstations that an individual would use.
- sleepybrett 5y agoWhen a game company I worked at went out of business and couldn't unload their aging Indigo Elans and Indys I picked up one of each for about a hundred bucks. I now have some regrets simply because their monitors have strange connectors, so i keep them around and they are heavy and annoying to store. That said I could probably pay off my initial purchase and then some by unloading one of their 'granite' keyboards (ALPs boards, collectors love them).
- tech2 5y agoThat 13W3 connector is the worst. I also had an Indy many years ago and getting an adapter together for it was a real challenge. These days I expect it to be somewhat simpler though.