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How did Keyhole fit in to this? I used to be on bbs.keyhole back before Google got hold of it and turned it into Google Earth. I always thought keyhole developed the tech for it?
Sound likes you do have some really interesting stories to tell
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Keyhole is the company that got all of the SGI tech. Several of the software engineers left SGI for Keyhole when things started going bad so they could continue the work on what would become Google Earth. As far as I know there was never an "official" sale of that material, it just left with the engineers. SGI left so much on the table that they could have made money off of.
One of the side projects that I never saw anything more about was a virtual screen in the cockpit of an airplane. The idea was to have an Onyx 2 (or something close) on the plane that would render graphics in real time on the cockpit glass to show a pilot what they _should_ be seeing in case there was fog or other blackout conditions. The images SGI had taken of the Bay Area were in support of this project and they also ended up at Keyhole.
I do have some great stories. I've promised people to leave out names...
Fun fact: at one time, all of the on air graphics for The Weather Channel were produced by O2's. They had banks and banks of skinless O2's racked in their data center.
