TECH SPEC TUESDAY Silicon Graphics Indigo About this machine: The Silicon Graphics Indigo was one of the most powerful graphics workstations of its time. The Indigo, originally called the IRIS Indigo, used a 32-bit MIPS R3000A processor and supported up to 96 MB of RAM when it first launched in 1991, and used a 64-bit MIPS R4000SC processor and supported up to 384 MB of RAM, starting in 1992. The Indigo ran IRIX, Silicon Graphics’ version of Unix. The Indigo was seen in the movie Jurassic Park as one of Samuel L. Jackson’s character’s workstations. Specifications table: CPU: MIPS R3000 @ 33 MHz Memory: 16 – 96 MB Storage: SCSI HDD Graphics: 24-bit graphics Networking: Ethernet built-in Notes: Early 1990s graphics workstation. Image credit: James O’Gorman, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silicon_Graphics_Indigo_(1).jpg vintage.computer
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The Silicon Graphics Indigo was a powerhouse graphics workstation of the early 1990s. Powered by MIPS processors and running IRIX (SGI’s Unix), it delivered advanced 3D graphics and even appeared in Jurassic Park as a hacker workstation.
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