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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 Way to make me feel old.First job included being a sysadmin for a few of these (plus Indys) some (aged, horrible) Apollos, Sun IIs (BSD based Sun OS 4.1.3 was much better than System V based Solaris 2.2 / 2.3).At various points I had an SGI Onyx, Challenge servers to look after.Still have nightmares about the tiny pinned cables they used on their mini SCSI adaptors on their Challenge servers. One routine maintenance recabling session ended up finishing at 6am in the morning due to the propensity of those fine pins to not line up nicely with the port.

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