What always amused me is that in order to trigger the locks, the "computer whiz" girl had to navigate some sort of 3d control environment, probably the most ineffective way possible to control something that should be random access.
It's admirable that SGI was experimenting with interfaces. However in this situation having to navigate such an interface created a very real safety hazard. I suppose she could have used the regular file browser instead - or perhaps the substantially less exciting XTerm.
Things like that and running xearth as the background when logging in on the Indy's made them stand out massively next to the Sun boxes with monochrome terminals in our computer labs, which seemed ancient and outdated.
Heck, even booting them, with their nice blue gradient background and metallic frame around the window where the boot messages scrolled by set them apart from the boring Sun boxes. SGI early on had a lot of the design sense and flair that Apple has today.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=826qq6pslJk
http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?coll=...
With modern GPUs and processing power these could be made silky smooth. Still mostly pointless, which is a shame.
It's actually a Quadra 700. Business class all the way at Jurassic Park.