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Silicon Graphics: still crazy after all these years?

In 1982 a first class stamp cost 20 cents, the San Francisco 49ers won the Super Bowl and the unemployment rate was 9.7 percent when Jim Clark (far left) quit as a Stanford engineering professor to develop glitzy workstations at the startup called Silicon Graphics. On Monday, October 1, the company Clark built will celebrate its 25th anniversary at an evening reception at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. More (In case you're not aware, the Computer History Museum is SGI's old data centre)

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