I had no idea that keeping a blog would be so exhausting! Here it is, my tenth post and I am going to once again try and dazzle your with my knowledge and wit. I think it is important that I take you back to the year 1982 when Jim Clark and his partner Abbey Silverstone founded Silicon Graphics, Inc., also known as SGI. The initial products were specialized software or hardware that accelerate the display of 3D images. This was all based on Jim Clark's work. Eventually SGI created the IRIS 3130, a complete UNIX workstation. The 3130 was powerful enough to support a complete 3D animation and rendering package on its own without mainframe support, the first of its kind. This was amazing! With such new capabilities, 3D images and animation were now accessible with this computer. The workstation made some impressive works including the hugely successful Jurassic Park (1993). The technology developed by SGI has been used by Industrial Light and Magic in well-known films such as Artificial Intelligence: A.I. (2001) and Pearl Harbor (2001). ILM has been using SGI systems since 1988. The bottom line is that without the development of the Silicon Graphics systems, the development of a similar system might not have come for a few more years. Thanks to Jim Clark's initiative and genius, 3D images began appearing in films in the mid to late 80s. Not only that, but it gave other companies a place to start to take the technology even further. Unfortunately, the company has since dwindled into almost nothingness filing for bankruptcy protection earlier this year.