SGI O2 Graphics Computer 1998

[@blendernoob64]

God I would love to try an SGI machine one day. I want to be in tune with my CGI forefathers. I would love to own an SGI crt as well

[@cursedfox4942]

Buy one

[@cursedfox4942]

@@blendernoob64 buy one bro do it do it do it do it

[@evil_in_your_closet]

Oh man, that's tucking on my heartstrings! Back when i was a teen and started to develop an interest in Computergraphics i was OGLING those machines in magazines! This thing, along with PowerAnimator or Softimage Extreme truly made my heart beat - oh how bad i was wishing for something like this. But needless to say, it never happened. I also remember their brief move to Windows NT based machines - but that didnt last long, as we all know. It was not until 3D Studio R4 for DOS that i could finally dabble with 3D on a little more "serious" level (whatever "serious" means for a then 17 year old anyways). Thanks for this Video - i loved every second of it. And hey: At the very least i can claim that i sat on a cray once, having my lunch - at a museum!

[@pulptubenetwork8862]

More SGI stuff please

[@richardkoerper1630]

My o2 is in my computer room. Unfortunately it needs some work and as I am retired with a limited income I cannot afford to have it fixed. I however will keep it in the hopes of reviving it. Thank you for the memories.

[@Uhr24]

Good luck with that jewel of a machine!

[@mauricioluisvega3137]

I can see the love you have for that machine that is covered in dirt!

[@Uhr24]

yes, true!

[@RENDERDAY]

I first met Maya 1.0 in 1998 autumn. thanks about old talks about SGI and Maya.

[@Uhr24]

with pleasure! FYI: Maya: Maya 1.0 [A Brief Look Back] kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn-plYRtq6udlbc

[@vadim_smilansky]

I have 4 units of O2 - working sad that SILICON GRAPHICS ceased to exists they made best UNIX workstations ever

[@CartoonChris1]

in 98, we had 2 of these and what we called the purple box, which the name escapes me at the moment. So we had 3 total computers to work and render on. When in 98/99, Softimage ported over to NT, all of a sudden we could afford a 10 (and eventually 20) blade server render farm and it was amazing to go literally overnight to so much more productivity. Now I render in Unreal Engine in 4K on 1 computer, having abandoned a traditional render farm rendering Arnold a few years ago. It's crazy how tech leapfrogs itself in such a relatively short time.

[@Uhr24]

yes, very well said!

[@fredpoirier7387]

Those purple boxes might be called Indy

[@JoshNotJohn0]

I love SGI machines, despite them being before my time (2004 kid) they just give me a sense of nostalgia for an era that I wasn't there for. I'd love to see how an SGI Machine would handle audio work like pro tools or ableton, but I don't believe anything was released for that purpose on IRIX, unfortunately.

[@Uhr24]

true!

[@Ctrl_Alt_Sup]

What a fantastic computer !

[@Uhr24]

yeah, i was very happy with it.

[@edgarantoniocastrosoto]

saludos desde los mochis sinaloa tengo una computadora SGI 02 SILICON GRAPHICS DESDE 1999 LA USO TODAVIA PARA DISEÑO ARQUITECTONICO CON AUTOCAD Y SKEPCHUP SALUDOS DESDE LOS MOCHIS SINALOA MEXICO

[@Uhr24]

good to hear you still use this wonderful machine!

[@pulptubenetwork8862]

Nice

[@palote99]

I have one..... How much is market price? Thanks in advance

[@Uhr24]

i guess it isn't worth anything.

[@palote99]

@@Uhr24 jajajaj pues dame 1

[@PassifloraCerulea]

In the early 00s they were going for low hundreds of USD. Looks like they're $600-1000 or much, much more now.

[@topy706]

i can run 3D software on my phone nowadays. we came a long way

[@Uhr24]

which 3D software?

[@topy706]

@@Uhr24 Nomad sculpt

[@micThurrr]

Maya ❤

[@Uhr24]

history: Maya 1.0 [A Brief Look Back] kzbin.info/www/bejne/rn-plYRtq6udlbc

[@friggindoc]

Sad that they did not start making graphics cards for pc and compete with Nvidia and ATI

[@laurentgendrop22]

Many leads engineers had left SGI for create startups buyed by 3DFX, NVidia and ATI. That's them the reals fathers of 3D accelerators boards

[@friggindoc]

@@laurentgendrop22 Yeah but the company itself went under. There was so much history and innovation there. Same with SUN microsystems.

[@cursedfox4942]

It was weird though why vm windows on your machine and port everything to windows they basically just advertised for gates

[@Uhr24]

i don‘t get your point. however: moving from the O2 to a windows NT machine was crucial for my animation work.

[@cursedfox4942]

@@Uhr24 my point was one of the crucial losses for sgi was porting everything to windows it’s a major factor in why it is no more that company was run by morons

[@MrJorgalan]

@@cursedfox4942 There were tons of bad strategic decisions. Today, it could’ve been another Apple, dominating the high-end desktop market with sleek designs. The mistakes? Switching to Windows and Intel, not evolving its own architecture and manufacturing processes, and abandoning its graphics division, trusting NVIDIA to handle that instead-and even giving them a team of engineers to do it!

[@cursedfox4942]

@ ya abandoning its graphics team was MORNONIC the company is called silicon GRAPHICS It’s funny I always joke : hey they wanted to be a server company and now they are under hp lol. One half of the company was obsessed with servers one with graphics weird dynamic that the server people won

[@Vlamat67]

Send me this machine, I love it!

[@Uhr24]

i dumped it already.

[@lookoutforchris]

@@Uhr24as in you threw it out? These are worth quite a bit of money these days. Nothing like their original price but a complete system is good shape with your specs could be $750-$1000 at the moment. That’s certainly worth an eBay listing or a posting on an SGI forum. You may get even higher prices than that in Europe as these are much rarer there. What a waste if you simply destroyed it.

[@breakingbadatron8874]

dr breen from half-life 2