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From: thompson@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu (Steve Thompson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: Delays in DS5000 shipping?
Message-ID: <1990Sep4.195347.27299@batcomputer.tn.cornell.edu>
Date: 4 Sep 90 19:53:47 GMT
References: <1990Aug4.013555.11650@hayes.fai.alaska.edu>
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
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In article <1990Aug4.013555.11650@hayes.fai.alaska.edu> fnddr@acad3.fai.alaska.edu writes:
>So, are people seeing big delays in their orders for the DS5000?  I'd really
>like to know if this is a genuine production problem or yet another kink in
>our distribution pipeline.  (Perhaps I should have guessed that "Digital has
>it now" implies that the customers DON'T have it now...)

We ordered six DS5000's in early June. The time between DEC getting the order
and the machines arriving was almost exactly 4 weeks. A futher DS5000 that
was ordered a week later also arrived in 4 weeks.
Steve