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SGI Indigo2: An $86,000 Workstation from 1995

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A retrospective look at the Silicon Graphics Indigo2 UNIX workstation, exploring its hardware, graphics capabilities, and historical significance in the 1990s.

Diving into the Silicon Graphics Indigo² desktop workstation computer! This was a beast in 1995, and yes, "it's a UNIX system, I know this!" How do the pros and cons stack up, what games can you play on it, and is it worth the cost today? ● Check out SGI Depot: sgidepot.co.uk/sgidepot/ ● Consider supporting LGR on Patreon: patreon.com/LazyGameReviews ● Social links: twitter.com/lazygamereviews facebook.com/LazyGameReviews ● Music used in order of appearance: "Tuned In 2," "Dress Code Black 1," "On My Mind 1," "Peek A Boo" epidemicsound.com

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What people say. Recommended for its fascinating look at high-end 1990s Silicon Graphics workstation hardware and its role in early 3D graphics history.

ckozlowskion Hacker News • Recommends

On “A baby saved ‘Toy Story 2’ from near complete deletion (2021)”

You're on the right track. As told in the Next Web story, the workstation in question was a Silicon Graphics Octane or there abouts. These were incredibly expensive and were provided by the company. In addition, according to the story, they were the ones who set up the file sync for her to be able to work from home. LGR and RMC have both done videos on the SGI Octane and are worth watching: link to this video , link Edit: It was Retro Man Cave, not Adrian's Digital Basement as originally written.
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On “The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics”

Random trivia which will likely get buried but whatever: the rendering software Octane Render got its name from my refusing to let the author use my rendering software's name, and he had some historical beef with us, the two devs of Indigo Renderer, so he named his renderer after the SGI machine that came after the Indigo, Octane. He also leant his SGI Indigo2 to the LGR guy on YouTube, and he did a great video on it: link to this video
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w_s_lon Hacker News • Mentions

On “The charm of buying old workstation hardware on the cheap”

For one I would love to have an SGI workstation, I still have CG magazines from this era and its plastered everywhere in the ads, and I'm still amazed at the graphic output (so smooth) and what we had in the 90s. link to this video I'd imagine something like this would've been used to make Crash Bandicoot and likes. It'd be really interesting to play games built on this thing.
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