[weblacky]

Yo All,
Odd question for our old-timers but I have to ask, as this is very much news to me.

I'm starting to re-read old USENET postings hoping to "relearn'" forgotten SGI info and I came across this post (which isn't the ONLY one mentioning these kinds of issue!!!):

https://groups.google.com/g/comp.sys.sgi...nFFNOxL5YJ

This took me aback, I'd hear rumors of like SGI Fuels going bang when first introduced...but never something like this.  Is it true that (back in the day) SGI shipments went through bouts of "manufacturing issues" and bad revisions to well-known stations?

Does this mean that those that failed back then were poorly made and what's left today is all the "good ones" weeded out by time?

I don't have more links but the archive for comp.sys.sgi.* also tells stories of phantom Indy reboots during idle, O2 mainboards just "going bad", etc...

Can anyone who "was there" shed light on these events?  Are these postings just outliers...or was something actually going on back then?  I thought (with a few exceptions) that SGIs were supposed to be of higher quality than an average PC, back in the day. These stories sort of show the company as...well...something else.