[twylo]

It was right after I got to college, so 1992. I remember seeing a copy of UnixWorld Magazine with a full SGI Indigo review, and I fell in love. I was absolutely lost with envy. I put the magazine cover on my dorm room wall.

Later on, I worked part time at a lab in school that had an Indigo 2, and got to play with it. It was love again, obviously, but forbidden love. That thing cost more than my tuition.

At the tail end of my college life, the SGI Indy was announced. I had to talk myself out of buying one with money I didn't have. $5K was <I>almost</I> credit card money. But with college debt... no way!

After college, I struck gold and got my dream job: Working for SGI! Well, technically. I was only a contractor, but I contracted at SGI for two years, 1996 to 1997. While I was there, the O2 and Octane were announced, as well as the N64. I got to play with all kinds of stuff. My daily driver was an R44K Indy. And I got my first "to keep" SGI from that job: they let me take home an old Indigo R4k that nobody was using any more. SGI used to devalue their internal assets to $0 for tax reasons, so a lot of employees got to take home free hardware when it wasn't used any more.

To this very day, that was the best job I've ever had. Wonderful memories :)