Tech by PC

My project is actually resurrecting an old SGI Fuel system whose motherboard and hard drive simultaneously died. There were no backups of the system, and it is a testament to the SGI hardware that this system lasted 6 years with 24/7 operation. This system is critical to production as it programs multi-million dollar machines. There is an upgrade to the software package available that will work on Windows, but the cost is somewhere in the six figure range. The system is also used for engineering work, and while this part hasn’t been production critical it has been an annoyance.

I managed to attend a telecom and send a bunch of emails back and forth today, so things are starting to get back to the grind. It has been a nice break though, and I wish that there could be more like that. I’ll have an SGI guy on-site tomorrow to replace the motherboard for a second time. It appears that the SCSI controller has gone bad because I am unable to load the engineering package on the system and it has been having some performance issues.

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