IBM hercules setup pics

[Richard]

In article <009e01c65d0c$eaec8e40$5f25fea9 at ibm23xhr06>,
    "John Allain" <allain at panix.com>  writes:

> > Speaking of big IBM boxes... what sort of boxes did they offer for
> > 3D graphics support prior to the RS/6000?
> 
> Well, just Concurrent with the RS6000 was the Power Visualization System
> (PVS) that used multiple i860's (up to 32 in parallel) and HPPI RAID to
> do real time volume visualization kinds of things.

Oooooh.   Real-time volume rendering is always fun :-).  The first
machine I ever saw that could do it was in 1987 at the NCGA conference
in Philly: the Pixar Image Computer (bet you didn't know Pixar was a
classic HW manufacturer, eh?).  This machine was sweet!  The Computer
History Museum has one in its collection.  I wonder if it works!

Does anyone on the list own the Power Visualization System?

I think I remember seeing this thing at SIGGRAPH.  It was the size of
a standing household refrigerator, if memory serves correctly.
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