On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 22:57:14 +1100, I waved a wand and this message
magically appears in front of Noddy:
> Whenever these discussions come up I'm reminded of a friend of mine
> who had an old Sun Micrographics machine (I think that's what it was)
> that he bought at an auction after it was de-commissioned. He used to
> brag about it having a 21 inch monitor (back in the days when most
> high end PC's had a 15 inch CRT monitor) and how it's Silicon
> Graphics video card cost 311 grand when it was new.
Sun Microsystem machines never used Silicion graphic adapters; I think
you're actually referring to the SGI machines which did have these.
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