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From: rmk@snowhit.att.com
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Subject: Re: SPARCstation under $5,000 ?
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Date: 6 May 90 11:28:34 GMT
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> The New York Times reported today (Saturday 5/5) that Sun will announce on
> May 15th a SPARC machine that lists for under $5,000.  The article said
> the machine would have no drives, so I take it it won't have a SCSI bus,
> and probably no SBus as well.

Our Sun account manager has leaked to me that this machine is diskless,
but does have a SCSI connector.  He described it as having the motherboard
of the 4/60 inside the monitor's case.  Only monochrome, initially.  He
did rule out it being an X terminal.  Sun deals in distributed processing
so they won't enter this market.

It will be interesting to see what it's capabilities are.

Richard Kurtz	(816)995-3204	rmk@snowhit.att.com