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noreferrer\">&#8220;You Ain&#8217;t Goin&#8217; Nowhere&#8221;<\/a> &#8211; Bob Dylan<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 0.2em; margin-right: 0.1em; width: 250px;\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"240\" height=\"180\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u7VNl4Np7Vo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/technologists.com\/sauer\/asgchs91.html\">video clip, Charlie with<br \/>\nAndy Grove, Comdex 1991<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The JAWS machine will always have special sentimental value to me because of the <a 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After the company was rebranded Dell, SmartVU disappeared. SmartVU was resurrected in the ill-fated &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20160418183450\/http:\/\/www.achievement.org\/autodoc\/page\/del0int-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Olympic<\/a>&#8221; machines and carried forward in subsequent 486 machines that reused the Olympic mechanical designs.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/notes.technologists.com\/notes\/?p=1108&amp;preview=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">discovering<\/a> the missing SVR4 binaries, etc. I turned on the JAWS machine and was dismayed to see a blank screen and &#8220;CRT?&#8221; on SmartVU. Dell SVR4 would boot and be useful on the network without the console, but the apparent display failure was terribly disappointing.<\/p>\n<p>I went on to eBay looking for replacement parts and was stunned to find that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ebay.com\/usr\/ctesales?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2754\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ctesales<\/a> had a bunch of appropriate system boards. I contacted Brian at ctesales about processor cards, thinking that the processor card might be the real problem. He asked for the Dell part number of the card. After I pulled out the card, found the part number and put the card back in place, the display started working again! I suspect dirty contacts on the system board end of the VGA passthrough ribbon cable (for the VGA &#8220;feature connector&#8221;). I went ahead and bought one of the system boards from ctesales, and with help from Brian, have ordered almost enough spare parts for a second machine, from eBay sellers from Vietnam to the UK.<\/p>\n<p>However, about this time I discovered that the 2G Conner SCSI drive that had been my primary JAWS drive for roughly 15 years, had failed.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, another 4G drive I&#8217;d used in the JAWS machine would still boot Windows for Workgroups 3.11, NT 4, and Red Hat 5.2. 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