Indigo2
Physical Object
2023.08.07.08
The Indigo 2 (codename "Fullhouse") was a successor to the Indigo series, and as a highend desktop workstation it was placed in the market above the low end Indy, which was actually released a while later (until the Indy came out, the original Indigo was the low end). SGI introduced the Indigo2 in 1993 as a mid-range workstation. Indigo2 offered phenomenal CPU speed, expandability and 2D/3D power for its time, as well as features not available from any other vendor. PCs didn't offer any sort of proper 3D support for several more years. In addition to various performance advantages, when Indigo2 was new it offered a degree of reliability, stability, ease of maintenance, efficient software/system management, driver support (real plug and play), responsiveness and feel, etc., that was utterly unmatched by PCs of the day, and it remained that way for a long time, though it goes without saying that Indigo2s were pretty costly (but not as much as one might think compared to 'top-end' PCs of that era). Indigo2 can still be a useful system in some ways even today, though it suffers in raw performance compared to the later Octane, Fuel and Tezro systems.