[geeks] A fuzzy memory

[Kevin]

Wasn't a laptop, that was an ad for the SGI Indy.

Cool ad though.  I remember being a kid just out of high school,
drooling over that ad, wishing and hoping.

That type of lust makes you buy 'em up like hot cakes when you
finally get the opportunity.  I've got enough Indy's now to make
a dining set out of them.

SGI has never made a laptop for production.  Some third party
companies have taken SGIs (Indy's and O2s i believe) and
"ruggedized" them into cases similar to laptops for military and
scientific uses, but SGI itself has never made one.  The one in
Twister (or was it Congo?) was a movie prop.

/KRM

On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 20:05:59 -0400
Jeff Cole <jeff at flambe.org> wrote:

> All this talk of Indigos has brought back a very fuzzy memory. 
> Some sort of laptop that had all sorts of connections on the
> back of it. Not a port replicator, actual on board ports. The
> ones that stand out in my mind were the multiple RCA connectors
> on the back. This was circa early 90's. I want to say that the
> laptop was called Indigo, but, I honestly don't remember. I
> seem to recall the tagline of the ad being something along the
> lines of "Choose your port". I want to say it had two rows of
> ports than ran the length of the back of the laptop.
> 
> Any ideas what I'm remembering?