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I spent many years working on high-end TV weather graphics on SGI Indigo, Onyx, and the O2 (toaster over shaped) boxes; they were remarkable for their time and the hours and hours it took to render graphics made for really nice downtime at work letting me say things like "sorry, can't do anything, graphics are rendering".

The best source for hardware ended up being a local university surplus shop where we could get the big SGI monitors for pennies on the dollar.

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In the mid-nineties I worked for Parallax Graphics in London, doing support for their SGI based paint and compositing software. One application, Matador, was heavily used in the video and film industry - also for TV and things like weather forecast graphics. Feels like ancient history. I loved working on my SGI and learning a bit of Irix.

What is old is new again. I am running a query against a very large datalake since yesterday. Only thing is, with the elasticity of resources in the cloud, I have no plausible reason to not be doing other work :-/

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