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An Indigo² would have been a pretty decent machine in 1998 though? As in, running current versions of application software and capable of keeping up with normal surfing, programming workloads, etc. A friend of mine still used a beefy Indy for that kind of stuff in 1999 IIRC.

I can see how an O2 can be a fun second machine at work however, as a conversation starter and mood lifter!

It's just that when I see someone running an SGI or equivalent these days, it's mostly Buttonfly or something to that effect. Maybe they're even running NetBSD, which seems even more pointless, since it gives the same exact experience you can have with any dirt cheap old PC. Is anyone still using them for, say, personal video editing or home project CAD drawings just for the heck of it? Or maybe solving Advent of Code?

I toyed a bit with a NeXT cube a while back. It was fun to tick that box on the workstation bingo sheet, but the excitement wore off rather fast; running an old version of Mathematica very slowly isn't my personal idea of fun. Similarly, I tried a pair of SGI/CrystalEyes stereoscopic glasses together with an Indigo a while back, which felt like a fun novelty trinket and held my attention for about as long.

I'm glad there are enthusiasts around who care for these machines and keep them around for posterity, because I think they have great historical significance. I guess I'm just not into that particular flavor of retro computing.