Gotta try it. Ta.
Welp, I got a help request, and you know it’s good because I’m posting it in retrocomputing!
So, our SGI Fuel is poorly. Won’t boot, post-light pattern is red-off-white-off on loop. All the documentation suggests this means GPU failure to initialise… except that when we stick a diagnosis terminal onto the internal serial port, the dump we get says that the I/O board is not responding, but that the GPU is fine and dandy.
Anyone have any SGI experience?
Obvious question - have you tried reseating all the boards & cards?
Aside from that, I have nothing else I can offer. 
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Check for dry solder joints?
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We even did the thing where you remove the standard-PSU-to-SGI-large-motherboard-power daughterboard and power that on by itself to reset it before plugging it back in, no dice 
That might be the next course of action, although it means dismantling the entire chassis and that sounds about as fun as grabbing a bunch of razorblades blindfold 
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Found this on Youtube.
It is Soviet. It is Chernobyl. But it also deserve a place in history, lest it should be all but forgotten.
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More Soviet goodness.
Oh, to hear the sound of floppy drives…
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OS/5, eh? Does that mean it’s 20% of an operating system?
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These days, there are a lot of emulators for old computers and game consoles. MiSTER Pi, Cloanto’s siblings of Amiga Forever and C64 Forever, and much more. But very few offer hardware-level emulation.
A new Commodore 64 computer is about to be launched by Commodore International Corporation. The rights to the Commodore brand went through several owners over the years, but were in the hands of C=Holdings BV since 1993, an offshoot of CIC, but still using the CIC name. A few things were released here and there, and/or the name and logo were licensed.
Last year, CIC released the Commodore 64x, which is a Mini-ITX motherboard with choice of CPUs and graphics inside a C64 “breadbox” case. The OS could be Windows 11, Linux or the Commodore OS Vision 3.0.
This year, Perifractic, of the Retro Recipes channel on YouTube, announced he had purchased all legal holdings (things like trademarks and patents) of CIC. The Commodore 64 Ultimate is the first product being released under the new owners, with hardware-level compatibility of existing Commodore cartridges, datasettes and disk drives, the two 9-pin joystick/paddle ports, 8-pin DIN video output, and sockets for plugging in two SID chips (6581 or 8580).
The specs related to more modern features are software emulation for 8 SID chips providing 24-channel sound, 128MB (yes, MB) RAM that is assigned to provide 16MB to the system, 16MB as an REU (RAM Expansion Unit), 16MB for GeoRAM, and the rest is a RAM Disk, HDMI output, 100 Mbps network and built-in WiFi.
The website is Commodore.net, and you can watch the tour of the factory below.
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If you haven’t seen it, Scott Hanselman’s TedX Portland talk is worth your time - and relevant to the C64.
I’ve been listening to his podcasts for many years and I knew he had a love for the C64, but I didn’t fully understand why until this talk.
I still have my old Commodore 64, which sat in my dad’s garage for decades - one of these days when I have the time I want to pull it out, clean it up, and see if it still works. Still have a lot of the software for it too, including one of the best games, Oubliette.
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