THE VIDEO SHELF · sgi workstations
SGI Indigo2: An $86,000 Workstation from 1995
LGR looks at the Silicon Graphics Indigo2, a UNIX workstation that cost about $86,000 in 1995, covering its pros and cons, games it can run, and whether it is worth owning today.
Why HN readers recommended it
Recommended in threads about SGI and vintage workstations as a good look at the hardware.
This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.
Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- LGR
- Topic
- sgi workstations
- Format
- demo
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2019–2024
These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.
From the original HN conversations
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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 …
ckozlowski on Hacker News · 2022-02
In A baby saved ‘Toy Story 2’ from near complete deletion (2021)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 …
pixelpoet on Hacker News · 2024-04
In The Rise and Fall of Silicon Graphics
Summaries, classifications and recommendation records are from the HackerTube source dataset. Read about this library and its limitations.