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In Reply to: RE: Comments like his appear to preclude any knowledge posted by Sordidman on August 29, 2014 at 12:08:43
The company I worked for in Mountain View sold tons (literally) of high-end graphics workstations & rendering servers to Lucasfilm for CG in the 1990's. This was before PCs could do decent graphics. Do you recall IRIX? When were you there?
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We bought a ton of them for Grim Fandango, - since it was a Softimage platform, - or so we wanted. They were just porting over Softimage for quad processor PCs running Windows/NT, and it worked so badly that it was largely unusable. We used the quad-processor PCs for Jedi, which a lot of was based on 3DStudio and Lightwave. Those SGIs were powerful little toasters. Amazing video, for the olden days.
ILM was running tons of them in their server room. We got a great deal cause we were the biggest SGI purchaser outside Boeing.
I was there from 93 to 1999.
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
It was a cool game. At a guesstimate, how many folks worked on it?
Cool.
Yup, I was with SGI from 1991-1995 in Mountain View (saw a few Dead concerts at Shoreline), and until 2000 in Colorado. The biggest 'event' I remember were huge buses lined up on the SGI campus loading employees for a private screening of Jurassic Park somewhere in San Jose. I don't recall the theatre. The party after the show featured Todd Rundgren.
Lucas / ILM were not my customer but it was "Hollywood" that brought attention to SGI, not NASA Ames, Boeing, Sandia Labs, Lawrence Livermore, Lockheed, NCAR, etc.
Fun times.
My Colorado NCAR customer back in the day
"How about a nice game of chess?"
Jim Tavegia
Cool photo of our tax dollars at work in an earlier decade. At least they weren't being used to kill people. In another few years a computer system like that will fit in our pockets. :-)
Tony Lauck
"Diversity is the law of nature; no two entities in this universe are uniform." - P.R. Sarkar
At least they weren't being used to kill people.
Well, not at the likes of NCAR, NOAA, NIST, etc. But the spooks at "the fort" and related IC agencies were big customers too.
"In another few years a computer system like that will fit in our pockets. :-)"
But will it be able to play decent audio without extensive third party modifications to the hardware and software? ;-)
JE
Out post release party budgets were massive, and the spectacle...Mark Hammill riding a BMW with side car to the premier of Full Throttle, - hilarious....
"Asylums with doors open wide,
Where people had paid to see inside,
For entertainment they watch his body twist
Behind his eyes he says, 'I still exist.'"
Silicon Valley was a fun place to work back then, beer bashes and concerts all the time for the employees. Do they still do that or did it all go away after the dot com crash?
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