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I contacted SGI in their later years when my department had a little extra budget. Knowledgeable guy on the phone tried to talk me out of buying one of their workstations. They really were only interested in selling to a certain type of customer. Innovative, flashy, and desirable products for a hot minute, but that company was managed to death. Apple beware.

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That’s a problem but I can somewhat understand. One SGI workstation was not their strength. My memory is that while they had Netscape, there was no LibreOffice (StarOffice at the time). No consumer apps to speak of. One had to hope for FOSS apps to get ported, and check their package manager site occasionally for updates.

The web would eventually take over most things, but not for a decade plus, and we didn’t know for sure. By that time the hardware would be obsolete. :sad-trombone:

For a while it was like living twenty years in the future though, if your profession revolved around graphics.

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