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This thing was like the coolest/rarest thing back then, it was almost legendary cause no one had seen one but everyone rumored they existed.

I had various Sun & SGI workstations at my internships in the 1990s.. all these machines were just cool. The SGI Indy wasn't super impressive but the fact it had a video camera was pretty insane in 1996 or so when we saw them. People were so enamored of the video camera if you had an Indy in the lab at your office people will take so many videos/pictures with it that they'd fill its disk space up. A lot of people I knew had their first digital picture of themselves by getting one from an Indy, cause digital cameras were horrible & stupid expensive at that point. The O2 was a pretty amazing machine too.

There's something retro cool about the new Apple Silicon Macs, it's like we've returned to the days of RISC Unix machines finally. Different OSes and Platforms were much more diverse back then and it contributed to a real sense of wonder when you got to work with a really unique computer. A lot of that is lost today where it seems like 99% of everything is Windows, OSX, or Linux. My first job we were testing on like 15 different versions of Unix + Windows NT.




I still have Ultra 1 Creator with 1GB of RAM that I plan to use for some oldskool development. At the moment it has Solaris 2.5 and SunPC DX2 card for running VB 4 and VC++ 1.52 on Win 3.11... And also for playing Castle of Winds.

Modern hardware and software feels so boring compared to all this madness...


I had a SPARCstation at my first full time developer job. The Sun type 4 keyboard, OpenWindows, 21 inch Trinitron... it was so exotic and different I felt like I was being paid to live in some hacker dreamworld.

Moving to Windows machines after that was a real drag, but the Mac brought me back to some of that UNIX magic.




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