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From: bambam!hjp@uunet.uu.net (Howard J. Postley)
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Subject: Re: Has anyone received their SPARCstations?
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In article <3925@kalliope.rice.edu>, elan!kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) writes:
> 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.
> 
> Ken Greer
> Elan Computer Group, Inc.
> {ames,hplabs,uunet}!elan!kg
> 415-964-2200

 From what I understand, the volume shipments of the SS 1 aren't really
expected until October; one reason that Sun is expecting a loss - lack of
revenue during the ramp-up for all of Q3.

I gather that their HP mini got really swamped with some of the stuff that
they just implemented, and the Amdahl that got installed isn't fully
running yet.  Must have been a big problem to have had forced such a rude,
immediate switchover

//hjp

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