[hamei]

I understand back in the day, but new demand is now up, and all the graveyard Fuels are gone.  We've no stock to fix and have now created a monster of a situation. 

To be overly blunt and kind of mean but realistic : who gives a crap ? SGI boxes now are useless. Not because they can't do good work, not because they aren't the most pleasant personal computer to own and use - no. Because no one now does a damn thing of value with them. They sit on shelves looking pretty, while prices go through the roof for stuff that will never see another electron pass through its veins.

I used mine. Every single day it got turned on and work passed over its hard disk. I managed (with a lot of help from good guys) to get some open sores programs running, I used old photoshop and framemaker and pro/e and mail clients and a ton of utilities and we ran the office with a silvery apple thing and the Octane (and before that a fool and an o350).

Now that a stupid v12 costs a thousand dollars and no one does a damn thing with it, after getting their sweaty little pawprints all over it, mine, my precioussssss, wtf ? Who gives a crap ? They are pointless.

It's all become quite stupid.