[m463]

My heart hurts reading that.

I felt something similar walking through Weird Stuff Warehouse and seeing old SGI workstations that I used to covet sitting on shelves for a pittance. Even if you bought them, you probably didn't have a 13w3 monitor or software to get them up. and now weird stuff is gone itself.

It's that "it's gone and can't come back" feeling.

[sitkack]

https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/tech-history/...

When we look backwards in time, we see lots of tributaries that dried up for various reasons. That SGI workstation is still in your head, it is really up to us to copy and extend those concepts forwards in time.

That software is still sitting on a box of junk in someones basement somewhere, it just has to be found.

[HeyLaughingBoy]

That software is sitting in an SGI in my basement :-)

[m463]

That's a sad one too. it's hard to quantify the loss of an ecosystem.

[xtiansimon]

Old SGI workstations and the things people make with them....I loved the surplus you could buy in the Vally in the early 90s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPvIs0I-gmg