[tyfon]

I was working as a hired SGI/SUN admin via ABB for Statoil in 1997 in Stavanger. The HQ was packed with Ultra 60s with creator3d or elite3d cards. Some even had both. We had to keep a few hundred of these running and they were used to explore seismic data visually.

Those machines were pretty powerful for those days, almost at supercomputer level. One cost more than a years salary for me back then.

But Oil has always loved computers.