@nixCraft I used to have a IRIS 3020 in my basement (a.k.a. the computer museum). Donated to the RI Computer Museum (along with 5 carloads of other stuff).

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@nixCraft We ported our product (case tool) to it. We had a full collection of 1990s unix workstations around the office.

@nixCraft I so wanted an Indigo (or any SGI box for that matter) back in the day. I had to make do with getting a big computer case of a similar blue colour and pretending.

@nixCraftfor fans of the gui I can recommend Irixiumfor example plasma:pling.me/p/2142966

@nixCraft fittingly awesome colour too :toot: 😸 #irisofMastodon

@nixCraft LGR did a nice review of an Indigo2 m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDxLa6P6

@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.

@nixCraft I well remember the Indigo. I purchased two refurbished units for the departmental computer lab. The hard drives were literal/littoral boat anchors.

@nixCraft the good old daysI had my first professional computing experience on Sun workstations - beautiful hardware and as far as we know an OS that wasn't malware SunOS 4.1 irc

@nixCraft I have an Indigo II and 2 O2's at home.Unfortunately no working monitor for the Indigo II. The O2 works with quite a lot of modern monitors though.

@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.

@nixCraft the gui looks so pretty, especially on a CRT display

@nixCraft I worked an an SGI workstation from 1991-1992 doing science fair projects at the local university on DNA analysis to generate my graphics. I ran the C programs on IBM RISC stations, and generated the graphics on the SGI. Then turned around and used a Mac to create the presentation documents. Great times!

@nixCraft huh, I have that monitor! I should pick up an Indigo to go with it.