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Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖

Hey Retro Fans!

While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:

Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!

This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.

A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator

Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖

Hey Retro Fans!

While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:

Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!

This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.

A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator

Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖

Hey Retro Fans!

While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:

Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!

This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.

A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator

Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖

Hey Retro Fans!

While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:

Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!

This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.

A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogfind #sgi #sgiindy #indy #irix #netscape #navigator

Catch of the Day: A visit from the SGI graphics forge! 🦖

Hey Retro Fans!

While many of us still had gray towers sitting under our desks in the late 90s, the world of high-end graphics looked completely different. And today, we had a visitor straight from that world:

Netscape Navigator 4.75C-SGI on an SGI IRIX system!

This is absolutely mind-blowing! SGI (Silicon Graphics, Inc.) built workstations that were as expensive as sports cars and as powerful as mainframes. Whether it was "Jurassic Park," "Terminator 2," or the architecture of the Nintendo 64—all of it was developed on SGI machines running the IRIX operating system.

The fact that today, in 2026, someone fires up their SGI Indy, Indigo, or perhaps even a massive Octane workstation, launches the Netscape 4.75C customized exclusively for IRIX, and browses the web on FrogFind simply goes to show: True hardware legends never die.

A reverent greeting to the lucky owner of this UNIX dream machine!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Can someone explain the appeal of transparent computer cases to me, or cases with windows, or interior RGB lighting?

To me the ideal PC shape is the NeXTcube. Or if you want a splash of color an SGI Octane or something.

Not criticizing your choices, but like… why do you want to see the dust gathering inside your case all the time lit up by garish colors?

what am I missing (other than a sense of fun and whimsy)?

#computercase #gamingpc #buildaPC #NeXTcube #sgi #sgiOctane #sgiIndy #sgiOnyx

Can someone explain the appeal of transparent computer cases to me, or cases with windows, or interior RGB lighting?

To me the ideal PC shape is the NeXTcube. Or if you want a splash of color an SGI Octane or something.

Not criticizing your choices, but like… why do you want to see the dust gathering inside your case all the time lit up by garish colors?

what am I missing (other than a sense of fun and whimsy)?

#computercase #gamingpc #buildaPC #NeXTcube #sgi #sgiOctane #sgiIndy #sgiOnyx

Can someone explain the appeal of transparent computer cases to me, or cases with windows, or interior RGB lighting?

To me the ideal PC shape is the NeXTcube. Or if you want a splash of color an SGI Octane or something.

Not criticizing your choices, but like… why do you want to see the dust gathering inside your case all the time lit up by garish colors?

what am I missing (other than a sense of fun and whimsy)?

#computercase #gamingpc #buildaPC #NeXTcube #sgi #sgiOctane #sgiIndy #sgiOnyx

Can someone explain the appeal of transparent computer cases to me, or cases with windows, or interior RGB lighting?

To me the ideal PC shape is the NeXTcube. Or if you want a splash of color an SGI Octane or something.

Not criticizing your choices, but like… why do you want to see the dust gathering inside your case all the time lit up by garish colors?

what am I missing (other than a sense of fun and whimsy)?

#computercase #gamingpc #buildaPC #NeXTcube #sgi #sgiOctane #sgiIndy #sgiOnyx

Can someone explain the appeal of transparent computer cases to me, or cases with windows, or interior RGB lighting?

To me the ideal PC shape is the NeXTcube. Or if you want a splash of color an SGI Octane or something.

Not criticizing your choices, but like… why do you want to see the dust gathering inside your case all the time lit up by garish colors?

what am I missing (other than a sense of fun and whimsy)?

#computercase #gamingpc #buildaPC #NeXTcube #sgi #sgiOctane #sgiIndy #sgiOnyx

Found something interesting in the ewaste bin today. Excited and scared to learn another vintage computing platform. #sgiindy

Found something interesting in the ewaste bin today. Excited and scared to learn another vintage computing platform. #sgiindy

Found something interesting in the ewaste bin today. Excited and scared to learn another vintage computing platform. #sgiindy

Found something interesting in the ewaste bin today. Excited and scared to learn another vintage computing platform. #sgiindy

Found something interesting in the ewaste bin today. Excited and scared to learn another vintage computing platform. #sgiindy