The large Origin servers and the nice indigo workstations at trade fairs with their cool real time visualizations comes into my mind. Also applications like So

The large Origin servers and the nice indigo workstations at trade fairs with their cool real time visualizations comes into my mind. Also applications like Softimage, the 4Dwm desktop ... Later the large Altix NUMA systems with core counts in unprecedented sizes (and problems booting due to lock contention ;) And of course their donation of the XFS filesystem to the linux world!