Greengeek Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I have one of these: SGI Indigo 2 r10000 List price in 1994 was $40 000, although I paid my employer about £50 when they upgraded a two or three years later. It still works but doesn't see much use because it sounds like a small helicopter. That's awesome. Is it ATX inside? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greengeek Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 My first was one of these: http://www.ii.uam.es/esp/museo/imagenes/PCS286.JPG Cost me £200 with an SVGA Monitor right about the time the first Pentiums were coming out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sccsux Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 Is it ATX inside? Doesn't appear so, though it is capable of utilising ISA cards and SCSI drives. http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/images/indigo2-interior2-1903.jpg http://www.sgistuff.net/hardware/systems/indigo2.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fake Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 I still have some memory chips from my 386 and I think they were 1MB EDO 133mHz each... How times change as my PC now has 8GB @ 1660mHz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkertelecoms Posted November 20, 2011 Share Posted November 20, 2011 When 386's were the bees knees 1mb would have kicked you for about £300. I used to supply the stuff back in the late 80's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenthack Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 I still have some memory chips from my 386 and I think they were 1MB EDO 133mHz each... How times change as my PC now has 8GB @ 1660mHz. dont think they even ran at 133mhz pc100 and pc133 memory came out after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walkertelecoms Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Ah could be right, did the 386's need separate chips for upgrading? Then you had to setup the BIOS to tell it you've added 32k Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
L00b Posted November 22, 2011 Share Posted November 22, 2011 That's awesome. Is it ATX inside? Doesn't appear so, though it is capable of utilising ISA cards and SCSI drives.SGI Indigo (and other SGI boxes) were 'bespoke architecture' workstations designed for, and used essentially by, the video editing/effects industry, with a heavy bias towards parallel image processing and high-bandwidth data stores (internal SCSI drives were the norm, although they'd usually be networked to a RAID data farm storing movie/video frames). They'd often run a UNIX variant as an OS. The Jurassic Park effects (amongst other notable ones) were made with SGI boxes. That was all before the Wintel platform evolved sufficiently to match their data processing power, and the likes of Softimage and Discreet ported their image processing packages over to Wintel. SGI stock fell off a cliff, and the company is only just now starting to make waves again, with supercomputers. I used to work with Discreet around the time it happened (shortly before Autodesk bought them, and around the time the LOTR fx were being made), and saw the platform transition first-hand. Back in 2000, seeing a SGI box being 'pushed' by a software dev felt quite special. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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