[samstave]

Just a piece of history of SGI:

When I went to school for Softimage in 1997 - my favorite thing was building with MetaClay -- I built an amazing Human Figure on an O2 SGI box -- and sadly I lost my dat backup years later - which I would have been able to bring into blender these days....

Metaclay in 1997 was unreal on SGI...

Now its in the Alien that is Free Blender...

(Softimage was[ $25,000 a license at the time](https://i.imgur.com/9gaeeQl.jpeg) - and an [SGI O2 was 15K and an Octane was 47K](https://i.imgur.com/aVQATfV.jpeg)

https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?threads/sgi-hardware-and-sof...

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So after going to school for 3D when it was only taught in 5 schools in the nation at the time - and you can see what a simple rig cost...

I later spent $1,600 on an Evans and Sutherland 32MB Full-Length ATX video card that could handle OpenGL... and run NT and Softimage...

[cdshn]

I have a Fuel with an SSD drive. Unfortunately it wont boot off of an SSD so I have to move everything to a network drive before the SCSI drives die.

Meanwhile there are other ghosts in it that make it a lazy booter.