Before they became a household name making animated movies, the bread-and-butter job at Pixar -- yes, THAT Pixar -- was selling a high-end dedicated image processing computer of their own design. This $30,000 (and up) system provided unprecedented performance for the time, and was the cornerstone of Disney's CAPS animation system. The processor was based on a SIMD architecture that's been credited as inspiring the design of the PowerPC G4 AltiVec unit.—VintageCG