Goodbye SGI

The end of the dinosaur.

http://www.sgi.com/support/mips_irix.html

I hate to think that I gave up my P55k/month job at First Multimedia Center for a mere P16k/month at Optima just to be able to work on one of these.

Stupid. But that was 1992. I wanted to do 3d work for commercials and not AVPs (as they call it in Manila). And I wanted to see my work on the big screen. I have Optima to thank for that. Oooh..... the Onyx! In it's own little glass room. I wanted to bow down before it. The mother of my little Indigo and Indigo 2s.

But then I was transferred to Commotion. Suddenly my Indigos were nothing more than paper weights. We even had O2s but they were seldom used and not by me.

And now their reign is over. The last of the 'supercomputers' would be delivered late this year. People still use a few of them here at work. But if you go down to the stockroom you'll see them scattered on the floor, gathering dust in a dark corner of our building. Almost like a graveyard.