That was in ... '04 ish? And, yes, it was indeed awesome. As with all my desktops since time immemorial, its purpose was to provide an X11 environment that I u

That was in ... '04 ish? And, yes, it was indeed awesome. As with all my desktops since time immemorial, its purpose was to provide an X11 environment that I used to ssh to everything else, so I never really stressed the machine itself. This isn't (I think, memory fuzzy at this remove) a screenshot from that box, but it'll give you a feel for what one of my monitors would be displaying - https://trout.me.uk/sc2.jpg https://trout.me.uk/sc2.jpg Zero use of any of the shiny, just treating it as a solid old school workstation - the closest I had to a complaint was that it took me a little while to adjust to the level of fan noise. With a remote browser instance to deal with the billion tons of JS I wouldn't at all mind going back to that setup today. But it served valiantly in its subsequent life, so I feel I treated it with the respect it deserved. (also because nobody really cared about that sort of kit at the time the Indigo2 and the monitors were cheap pickups off ebay, I'm not sure I've ever had better "bang for the buck" from building out a work setup)