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Sorry for misremembering: it was SGI Indy not the Indigo.

And also important to note that the SGI machines were a factor more expensive again than the macs. If the macs were already nearly unfeasible in Eastern Europe the SGIs certainly would be.

And yet I saw more than a few in the early 3D / rendering business. Maybe they worked for Western VFX houses? I can't recall.

Price wise, I am not sure. There were cheaper Macs yes but looking at workstations https://everymac.com/systems/apple/mac_quadra/specs/mac_quad... https://forums.sgi.sh/index.php?attachments/sgi-indy-introdu... pricing is comparable?

Oh yeah I'm sure because they were pretty much the only game in town for that.

But what I mean is: they were purely professional workstations. A Mac was something that a wealthy private person could have, easily. You wouldn't buy an Indy, they were over 20k$ or something. I was really referring to private use.

We had some at university but even those were donated. Though we were mainly a HP-UX shop.

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