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SGI Indy Dead

SGI Indy
KindMachine
Introduced1993
Discontinued1997
StatusDead
ManufacturerSilicon Graphics
ClassWorkstation
PlatformMIPS R4400/R4600
Sourcebitsavers.org ↗

The purple graphics workstation — IRIX, OpenGL, and digital video when that meant something. Jurassic Park was rendered on its bigger siblings.

Created by Silicon Graphics
Hosted IRIX

The Indy (1993) was SGI's affordable graphics workstation — R4400, 3D acceleration, digital video standard, in teal-purple plastic. It shipped with the IndyCam, one of the first consumer video cameras.

IRIX + OpenGL made SGI the effects workstation of the 90s; the Indy was its accessible end. Commodity 3D killed the business model; Indy is the model retrocomputing's nostalgia machine.

Sources

  1. bitsavers.org/pdf/sgi/
  2. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Indy