Silicon Graphics Indigo 2 MIPS running IRIX. Quite a beast back in the days.
Lovely machine! Although I'm partial to the O2.
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I remember dreaming of running quake on a silicon graphic machine over a T1 line. Had no clue what the specs were but they sure sounded like I could pawn all the noobs while downloading the whole Napster collection in an hour.
"It's a Unix system! I know this!"
IRIX 2.7 if I remember correctly. It would run Linux too but there's no way to find an X-server for the sgi graphics.
Yep IRX. About as close as you could get to real for movie...i just always remember it because of SGI. They built some awesome machines in the 90's.
Do you use it for something in 2025?
I have an octane sat idle that I can't bear to part with for some reason.
So do I. Recently got rid of a sgi U320 (the strange ARC than ran Windows NT) and a SUN Blade 1000 after my Sun Hypersparc finally died and I decided that I definitely lack the space to go on collecting UNIX machines.
Snap. I have a b1000 too. Bloody huge and heavy. Used to use it for OpenBSD stuff.
I was running Solaris 11 most of the time, later converted it to Linux because of audio stuff. Was my primary desktop machine for quite a while.