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From: botticel@olympus.crd.ge.com (David J. Botticello)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone received their SPARCstations?
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Date: 22 Jun 89 02:00:48 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 44, message 8 of 20

In article <3925@kalliope.rice.edu> elan!kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 38, message 17 of 24
>
>Has anyone in the world their received a real SPARCstation 1?
>
>We ordered ours a few days after they were announced -- SUN still won't
>give us a delivery date!  Scott M. said they would be shipping in volume
>by now at the big announcement.
>

We got ours! We ordered them in March (pre-anounce), received them in MAy,
and have JUST RECENTLY got the software to run them!! It seems Sun
expected everyone to buy internal disks with them. We use strictly a
server environment, and 4.0 is not enough to boot them from. We had to
wait for 4.0.3! And loading 4.0.3 on a 4.0.1 4/280 is best the subject of
yet another message.

*Needless to say, I speak for my own experiences/ your mileage may vary,
and my employers' is not reflected by my opinions.

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