When I was in Civil Air Patrl, we went to Fallon Naval Airstation in Nevada, when they were still doing Top Gun there.
The flight review theatre was AMAZING, it had a huge screen, and the graphics were 3D wireframe - but they had the entire valley modeled and had a huge trackball and they could review the flight scenes in 3D -- this was ~1988/89
It was amazing... but I am not sure if it was backed by SGI, but based on your comment, I believe it would have been.
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I bought one of the early OpenGL capable graphics cards frm Evans and Sutherland in ~1997 to run Softimage on Windows NT with a Dual PII 266 based machine...
The card had 32MB of graphic ram. it cost me $1,699 -- and it was a full length AT board.
I was trying to get an O2 -- but it was way out of my price range.
The flight review theatre was AMAZING, it had a huge screen, and the graphics were 3D wireframe - but they had the entire valley modeled and had a huge trackball and they could review the flight scenes in 3D -- this was ~1988/89
It was amazing... but I am not sure if it was backed by SGI, but based on your comment, I believe it would have been.
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I bought one of the early OpenGL capable graphics cards frm Evans and Sutherland in ~1997 to run Softimage on Windows NT with a Dual PII 266 based machine...
The card had 32MB of graphic ram. it cost me $1,699 -- and it was a full length AT board.
I was trying to get an O2 -- but it was way out of my price range.