When I heard that one of the first studio where I worked shut down I needed to investigate since there was something I was looking for. Back in 2002 I started my vfx career learning Discreet Flint on a Silicon Graphics computer. I was still in contact with my boss and after a few calls I managed to acquire this beauty…

The poor abandoned sgi has been sitting in this warehouse for a few years. After loading almost a 100 Kg of hardware in the car, once at home I inspected all the components. Despite 15 years of inactivity the logic board was simply immaculate.

And here we are, all cabled for a first test. Octane 2, the Video breakout box, fibre channel disk array and, out of frame, the SGI Crt display. A couple of things have been lost, but I will hunt for an original keyboard and mouse on eBay.

And… here we are. The machine was up and running perfectly. Well lost the root password, lost the hardware key for Flint, external CD drive not working, couldn’t set up the network.. basically a brick. But it was the first step : )