Silicon Graphics was the thing (in computer graphics) in the beginning of the nineties

I started my career at Oracle in 1994, and I still remember what a big deal it was when the Silicon Graphics (wasn’t officially SGI yet) “Magic Bus” would come and park in the Redwood Shores parking lot and we would all line up to go inside and see some of these demos. I felt at the time like I was really in the future.

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paulsmith 3 days ago | parent [-]

Similar timing, I had a high school internship at the National Cancer Institute at Ft. Detrick, MD in 1994-95, and the lab down the hall had some SGI iron and a glove (I don't remember what the glove hardware was, if it was SGI or 3rd-party or custom) for manipulating 3D renders of folded proteins. Incredible stuff, same "in the future" feeling.

	▲	jacquesm 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		SGI reality center had a glove option. I can't find a pic of it though.

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qaq 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

NVidia is the thing because they hired key people from SGI

	▲	Keyframe 3 days ago \| parent [-]
		and ATI.