I have the main unit and keyboard.
type computer
country USA
year 1993
os IRIX UNIX 6.5.14
cpu R5000 MIPS
speed 150 MHZ
ram 128 MB
HD SCSI-2 2GB system & 20GB data
graphic 1280 x 1024 Galileo
colors 24-bit
sound 3 channels
ports Parallel, serial, MIDI, ISDN, Ethernet, miscellaneous analog and digital video formats,
miscellaneous analog and digital audio formats, SCSI-2
The Silicon Graphics Indy — SGI for Everyone
Released in 1993, the Silicon Graphics Indy was SGI’s entry-level workstation — the company’s attempt to bring high-performance 3D graphics capability to a broader professional audience at a price starting around $5,000. Using MIPS R4600 processors and SGI’s entry-level graphics subsystem, the Indy offered genuine SGI capability for applications including 3D modelling, scientific visualisation, software development, and multimedia production at a price accessible to individual professionals and small studios that could not justify the cost of higher-end SGI systems.
The IndyCam — Built-in Video
The Indy’s most distinctive feature was its optional IndyCam — a small digital video camera that attached to the top of the monitor and integrated directly with the workstation for video conferencing, digital video capture, and multimedia production. At a time when digital video cameras were expensive standalone peripherals, the IndyCam made the Indy a genuinely multimedia-capable workstation at a price that individual users could consider. This anticipation of the webcam by several years was characteristic of SGI’s tendency to incorporate future technologies before the mainstream market was ready for them.
SGI’s Decline
The Indy arrived just as SGI’s market position was beginning to erode. The rapid improvement of PC graphics hardware — particularly NVIDIA and ATI’s accelerators — combined with the emergence of Linux as a free Unix alternative began to undercut SGI’s value proposition in the late 1990s. SGI filed for bankruptcy in 2006 and again in 2009, ending one of Silicon Valley’s most technically brilliant but commercially challenged companies. The Indy represents SGI at the beginning of this transition — still capable of justifying its premium price, but facing competition that would eventually make its business model unsustainable.