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Well, it's official. The company who paid my salary and once upon a time made the leading graphics systems for Hollywood and the scientific community has finally filed chapter 11. That's right, SGI has taken the long expected step off the end of the plank.
I have to admit, it's not surprising. They've been in bad shape for quite some time, haven't had a real product in years, and long ago bled away most (if not all) of the folks who came up with the products that made them a graphics computer powerhouse. It's just depressing to see them fall from what they once were. A few of us were just talking, and at their closing price today ($0.07), I could almost buy a Vente Chai at Staryucks -- if the stock weren't worthless at this point.
I wish I could find the old "cool" version of their web site on-line somewhere. The only thing in the wayback machine is the site after they switched to the boring corporate version. I have hunch that the old Silicon Surf site only exists in memory and on old CDs that are probably landfill material by now. It's hard to belive that it was 11 years ago that we scraped together the hardware for an old PI25 and put the first Silicon Surf on-line.
I have to admit, it's not surprising. They've been in bad shape for quite some time, haven't had a real product in years, and long ago bled away most (if not all) of the folks who came up with the products that made them a graphics computer powerhouse. It's just depressing to see them fall from what they once were. A few of us were just talking, and at their closing price today ($0.07), I could almost buy a Vente Chai at Staryucks -- if the stock weren't worthless at this point.
I wish I could find the old "cool" version of their web site on-line somewhere. The only thing in the wayback machine is the site after they switched to the boring corporate version. I have hunch that the old Silicon Surf site only exists in memory and on old CDs that are probably landfill material by now. It's hard to belive that it was 11 years ago that we scraped together the hardware for an old PI25 and put the first Silicon Surf on-line.