Original Silicon Graphics pricing

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and have also chosen to remove all of my content. Many things have changed since I co-founded, named, and ultimately
then left SGUG. There are many good people around, to whom I apologize for frustrating by removing these things, and
also many petty people that over the years whittled down both the enjoyment as well as sense of obligation I used to
feel to anyone else regarding what was ultimately just a hobby. Unfortunately one of the latter now writes the rules
and so it is time for me to take my things and go.

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Here's a scan from a 1993 issue of Digital Video magazine that shows introductory Indy pricing as well as the price of upgrades, accessories, and software. Some hefty markups - SGI had the balls to charge 3x the street price for standard 72-pin parity SIMMs to upgrade the Indy's RAM to 32MB.

Also note that the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer was $25,000 - $50,000 depending on configuration.

SGI Indy Introductory Pricing.jpg
 
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