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Found this on Imgur pic of IRIS Indigo, a line of workstations developed and manufactured by SGI, was first announced in July 1991 (files.mastodon.social)
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Found this on Imgur pic of IRIS Indigo, a line of workstations developed and manufactured by SGI, was first announced in July 1991. It ran IRIX Unix and was well known for various apps in the 90s such as those used in 3D Graphics and Animation, and other industries. There was a time when workstation/desktop OSes spied zero on you, and you were in total control of your data, unlike Microsoft, which dominates this space these days. #unix #history

A picture of an IRIS Indigo workstation from the '90s, showing the desktop with a terminal and other windows open on the monitor
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@nixCraft I worked on an SGI system before the Indigo — forget the name — but I do remember that the keyboard alone cost $12,000. That was ~1982, making it ~$40,000 in today’s dollars.

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