[vishnu]

  I'd like a new fuel case where can I find one of those? Oh wait I can't.

Eckchully, you can. It's exactly the same as something else, with a slightly different front clipon plastic thing. The case is absolutely nothing special. In fact, it's not even nice. I spent some time playing around designing something the mainboard could go in that looked decent once, but the multiple failures of power supplies discouraged me from further fool ownership.

Thanks to kubatyzko one might rethink that now but at the time, it was purely disgusting.

Fucking sgi could break the ears off a brass donkey, on even the simplest ideas they screwed the pooch. What's the point of an inexpensive commodity workstation if you make it unreliable and unrepairable ? Those people were dickheads.

SGI outsourced almost everything on the Fuel, as well as on the Visual Workstations. At that time, SGI was circling the drain and grasping at straws to try to stay alive. If the board had listened to Jim Clark in 1993, SGI could be the Nvidia of today, but the board sided with that idiot CEO, Ed McCraken, and seeing the handwriting on the wall, Jim Clark left and founded Netscape. SGI made one last gasp attempt at relevance with the Prism, but after that, they were broken up into chunks and sold off, first to Rackable and then to HP. Which just makes you wonder how retarded the management at HP could possibly be to think buying the shattered remnants of SGI was a good idea. The staffing at Nvidia is jam-packed with former SGI employees, so, I guess in a way, you could consider that SGI did in fact survive, in a different guise as Nvidia.