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From: hascall@cs.iastate.edu (John Hascall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Delays in DS5000 shipping?
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Date: 11 Aug 90 01:19:01 GMT
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In article <90219.083603MELTSNE@GECRDVM1.BITNET> MELTSNE@gecrdvm1.crd.ge.com writes:
}Our new DECStation came in, after being ordered in late May.  The DEC salesman
}had to "escalate" the order to get this sort of response after slipping from a
}mid-July delivery date.

}He told me the longest delays are for machines with the new 1 GB drives which
}appear to be in short supply.

   Hmmm,... we got ~60 of those drives (I guess it helps to spend $4M ;-)