The SGI Indy was the first Unix system I lusted after. They ran a magazine ad showing off the back, with the tagline "Any Port in a Storm". Not too many comput

The SGI Indy was the first Unix system I lusted after. They ran a magazine ad showing off the back, with the tagline "Any Port in a Storm". Not too many computing experiences were more pleasurable than the first time I walked into an MIT computer lab as an incoming freshman and found myself face-to-face with an Indy: Video camera, Jurassic Park file browser and all.