Amazing machines, our designers used to use them to simulate design for disassembly processes. When you walked into the design studio, it was like entering another world.

I used to use them all thru college at WPI for solid modelling, FEA and CAD. They were awesome! I wish I could buy a case and put a modern computer in them they always looked cool.

I wish gamer computer looked like the indigo instead of red and block edge lord crap

1995 two gigabyte ram is good Now 9 tb ram or more ram is good

Looks rather like the Amiga 3000 inside (1990) in terms of layout. The floppy drives where the optical drive is. That was about $3000 back then @ 25mhz. 2MB RAM.

Unix huh?… I wonder if anyone has gotten a version of Linux to work on it. I figure Linux might have an ever so slightly higher chance of compatibility with some more games. Though I guess it would be a shame to use anything but the intented OS on it. Especially if it comes with a *_3D File Browser!_*

Can’t believe how small this thing is compared to like a Mac Pro

More fact:sgi also used on titanic movie

absolute coolest t-shirt.

I used to test multi-media trainman software, like Lexus Labs where you learn not to be an a-hole car salesman, on these machines before they went off to be mastered onto CDs. This just brought back a flood of memories! And yes, people CONSTANTLY made the 'It's a UNIX system' joke.

No better way to throw $86,000 away than to buy a computer

4:50 carbonfiber racing $10k bikes come without pedals. or with very crappy ones expecting you to install your very personal choice

8:00 oh, these blocky flying 3D menus scream mid-nineties... Destruction Derby and such, so nostalgic!

When people type on keyboards and they are showing it while they type, I always try to guess what they’re typing.

I'd buy one just for the case and replace the guts with a RasPi

That’s cool and all, but can it run doom?

Can it run Crysis ?

Fun Fact - John Ramsey - the father/killer of Jon Benet Ramsey was the CEO of Access Graphics one of the main if not the only source for SGI systems to the average person.

this is what it looks like if there is a ps2 2

I been a tech geek since I was like 10 years old they ain’t nothing on a pc I can’t fix and I also build PCs sometimes and no that thing today wouldn’t be worth 5 bucks

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From a technological point of view YES this thing is probably worth 5 bucks at best Seeing how far things have come since this machine was conceived.. But it was state of the art super high end graphics work station of it's time and a piece of history, Which makes it valuable to many collector nerds in the industry and general public. Just like anything, It's worth what people out there are willing to pay.. Aided by any significance.

farrt

96mb of ram to 64gb of ram, one day we'll have 2tb of ram maybe.

you have to run half-life off of that thing

Don't you get the feeling that consumers were bamboozled out of billions of dollars through planned obsolescence by all these computer companies?

It's hilarious that an iPad Pro today blows away that $86,000 machine... 😆

You could play a game named BzFlag on it. Which is still avaible (not sure if it is avaible for irix anymore tho)

State of the art of its time!

God I loved old SGIs. Worked developing engineering software on them. Great OS which was years ahead of its time. My old 150MHz Indigo could do video editing and real-time 3D rendering when most people were wowed by windows 3.1. The O2 was unreal at modelling and the Indy had video conferencing in 1995, when most people though a 33kbps modem connection to a bulletin board was cutting edge. The Octanes were beasts and we all lived in awe of the Origins and Onyxes. Great compilers for development, great software tools for creativity and built-in web development software from the early 1990s. Built like tanks, too.

Back in the day it bothered me that they could never bring together the more polished interfaces of Windows and MacOS with the high end workstations of the time. THose SGI machine had god awful X11 interfaces but they were rock solid. It is no wonder Microsoft eventually dominated for workstations when PC hardware finally caught up (primarily driven by gaming). If only SGI had put more work into the UI toolkit. But this is what you get when your dev staff is primarily engineers. It's like the early web before designers got involved. Programmers suck at user interface design.

Nice.

Wow I remember working on these in 2000. Very strange beasts!

We used the work on SGI's. Ironically we didn't do any 3d graphics stuff. It just so happens that the software we used and created happened to run on them. When I first used one in 1994 I never looked at Windows 3.1 the same. We also had an SGI server with 1GB of RAM like this one. I couldn't imagine that much RAM on a computer. At the time my PC had like 4MB.

The fact that our phones are stronger than these workstations... Wow

imagine buying one of these in 1996 and figure out now that its worth a tenth of the price

I had one of these in 2007 and ended up giving it away. You're wrong about the keyboard, though. It's a mechanical one and a pretty good one too, it's using the best Alps switches that were around at the time, similar but not same switches as on the legendary Apple Extended II keyboard.

Do you realize that Jurassic Park would never have been a thing w/o this thing? Whew I’ve always wanted one of these PCs ❤️

WHY would you CALL it an "Indigo" and then EVERYTHING attached to it is BEIGE or GREY? At LEAST make an INDIGO faceplate for the optical drive and give it a purple keyboard and monitor!

How does this compare to a cellphone CPU in 2021?

Thank you for all of your time and efforts you have invested in making this video available to the public.

The 100GB Hard disk is not original, you can tell with the "HP Invent" logo which came out in 1999-2002. Indigo 2 went out of production in 1997.

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In my university we had some of those indigo 2, octane and O2 irix unix was a pecular unix...

Its an xbox :o

For 86 grand you couldn’t get a matching disk drive? (Mouse, or keyboard$)

I would have hoped that the spirit of computer future would have come to me in 1995 before I laid down $86,000 and whispered in my ear 👻"Before you buy, remember the Moore's Law."

I would of liked to of seen the software talked about like SoftImage

Man in 95 those specs are insane. Love to had run old games on this thing to the max. Also i wonder how many ppl think jurassic parks computer scene was made up

The snow boarding games was mind blowing

I like the colour

Nintendo didn’t actually work with SGI they just licensed SGI technology mainly open GL

Oh wow... I was aware of custom architecture of super computers for scientific research, but not custom architecture for graphic processing work stations.

A full page ad for Bryce on one page, the same for SGI on the facing page. A river of my tears connecting both. Those were the days. Sigh.

Never herd of this, yet again i had a hp compact with windows 2000 or windows 98 on it in 2008 I can't remember lol

7:58 OMG! that's what the Nintendo developers used for the file select in Mario 64! No wonder, because they repurposed a lot of assets and demos from their workstations when they were developing N64 hardware and games

I have an Indigo^2 and an Indigo^2-10,000... and they are beautiful. But you're right you can't do much, can't even surf the web. BUT they do put out a lot of heat, so that's nice.

It’s compatible with windows 10 32-bit!

Very cool, looks like a PC version of the PS2. Way ahead of it's time- I'm just surprised they got away with it's fairly anemic cooling solution. I think my family's first computer had a 20Mb HDD back in the early 90's- I remember when the 64Mb memory card came out for PS2, I was shocked at it's "massive" storage size.

I was dragged out of the office by my boss back in the day to go tyre kick one of these. It was the dome shaped octane featured here. Ultimately he didn't buy it, mostly because here in Ireland you'd never have found anyone that had ever seen one let alone used it. Roll on almost 30 years and now half the processors used in American PC's are made here. Along I might add with all those Covid19 vaccines....

Time to make N64 games!

A poor man's Cray.

Did you get a hold of a SGI Moose Cam? Those were hilarious.

I had the Iris, indy and Power Indigo 2, then moved to the 02 and Octane. I remember these years!

but can it play crysis?

seeing the new Mac Pro sell for as much as $55k, I understand the frustration with ultra expensive computers. But if my calculation is correct, this computer would sell for just shy of $150k new when adjusted for inflation. Imagine a mac pro that was that expensive...

I would absolutely love to have a PC case inspired by the Silicon Graphics workstations.

imagine slapping an ssd on this bad boaye

An RTX at their Time

I can see why some computer companies went backrupt selling systems for those high prices

Does it run WIndows?

Ok, pretty sure the keyboard and nice WEREN'T ps2 compatible and they would fry if you even tried that

8:03 That´s explains why Lex could put Jurassic Park back on line almost at the end of the film.

Run Windows 7 on it

Is nobody going to talk about how similar 7:58 is to the Super Mario 64 selection menu?

Now 86p !

I had one and it was a very nice computer. I used IRIX, and OpenGL then Apple and other PCs came with more productive stations. Rip.

$86K is the price you paid for Alien Technology in 1995. Sounds about right. Meanwhile i was trying to run Quake on my DAD's 486DX 66 work PC. I always got his old computer when he would upgrade about every few years or when any MAJOR generation changes came. at that time I would have had a home built amd 386dx 40. I was 14 in 1996

In 1998 I was walking home from college and found an SGI monitor on the curb for pickup the next morning. Took it home, changed a fuse inside it and got to enjoy an amazingly high quality 17" rebadged sony CRT that had a calibrated color palette. I felt very fancy.

wait what? 990 megahertz? in 1995? Jesus fuck this was a top of the line machine for its time.

No one pointing out that the SGI menus are the SAME AS MARIO 64! Which makes perfect sense considering they supplied the hardware, even their CPUs share the same name! Mips!

But... can it run Crysis!?!!!

it looks stupid to pay so much money but if you save a lot of money because to can do more work in much shorter time it can actually safe you money in the long run. but for private use paying 86k for a workstation is pretty insane ;-)

We had a bunch of Indigo workstations with Irix at the university in the video rendering lab in the mid 1990s. Pretty impressive machines. I remember spending nights programming my faulty raytracing algorithms and watching them fail to render cubes, cows and scenery onscreen. Good times! 😆

7:25 15,000rpm hdd. You would never see that in a consumer hdd. Like a lot of early 2000's hard drives were like 4000 to 5000rpm

I have a couple of Impact 10000s but one needs the 2 feet stands if anyone has one, I'll buy.

The 1986 model came with a flux capacitor

I used to do UNIX admin on SGI machines for the Air Force. Weird OS (IRIX). Cool boxes though, and cool graphics accelerators.

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"Was never meant for public use"? Any public company could buy this if they wanted to. I guess by "public" you mean, putting it into your home? Sorry man I'm a UNIX nerd going way back, you should expect this kind of blowback when you cover a UNIX system and say a bunch of inaccurate shit. ;-) Love your channel but really, stick to video games.

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10 years in the future? Linux was first "released" in 1991, by 1995 is was at least version 1.2.

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I really doubt a workstation of this class would cost $86k. A souped up SGI server could easily top $200k, but... a workstation? Probably not.

nice pc

Everything but the cpu and gpu would have been top of the line 10 years later. When I built a system in 2005 the most ram you could get was 4 gigs but only some motherboards could even use the one gig sticks.

God this thing is so impressive that it's disgusting to me. It's 2021 and almost every piece of technology I own has less storage than the 300 GB this thing could potentially have with two hard drives...

$2300?! I garbage picked like 5 of the purple ones from Chrysler when they were clearing out hardware from the old viper program like 10years ago. I ended up scrapping all of them because they took up too much space. Super cool systems though.

Emulating Irix is now possible, but I heard it’s slow.

Can it run crysis?

I have three of those lovely sgi totem, so much time spent with Softimage, and who remembers Sofimage Eddie! Then Matador and Flame and Oh my gosh this is nostalgia...

I used to have one, on one of my old jobs, love that purple goblin!.

can it run crysis?

Yep, in the 90’s I worked for Johnson Controls Automotive systems Group and we had 4 Indigo 2’s

Honestly that box is a work of art

1Gb RAM?😳

One question: can you program an N64 game

Looks like an Xbox...