Just a piece of history of SGI: When I went to school for Softimage in 1997 - my favorite thing was building with MetaClay -- I built an amazing Human Figure o

Just a piece of history of SGI: When I went to school for Softimage in 1997 - my favorite thing was building with MetaClay -- I built an amazing Human Figure on an O2 SGI box -- and sadly I lost my dat backup years later - which I would have been able to bring into blender these days.... Metaclay in 1997 was unreal on SGI... Now its in the Alien that is Free Blender... (Softimage was[ $25,000 a license at the time](https://i.imgur.com/9gaeeQl.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/9gaeeQl.jpeg) - and an [SGI O2 was 15K and an Octane was 47K](https://i.imgur.com/aVQATfV.jpeg https://i.imgur.com/aVQATfV.jpeg) https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/sgi-hardware-and-software-price-lists-1995-1998.345/ https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/sgi-hardware-and-sof... --- So after going to school for 3D when it was only taught in 5 schools in the nation at the time - and you can see what a simple rig cost... I later spent $1,600 on an Evans and Sutherland 32MB Full-Length ATX video card that could handle OpenGL... and run NT and Softimage...