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From: n8443916@unicorn.wwu.edu (John Gossman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: SPARCstation 2 --> workstation wars
Message-ID: <1990Oct19.190655.7637@unicorn.wwu.edu>
Date: 19 Oct 90 19:06:55 GMT
References: <0093E5EF.ABEDCFA0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU> <878@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM>
Reply-To: n8443916@unicorn.WWU.EDU (John Gossman)
Organization: Western Washington Univ, Bellingham, WA
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In article <878@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM> verket@venice.SEDD.TRW.COM (Paul Verket) writes:
>From article <0093E5EF.ABEDCFA0@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU>, by sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney):
>> Well, this is a myth. I've heard that Sun will give you a $1500 trade-in
>> credit for your old machine towardsa a Sun 4 *AND* you get to keep your
>> Sun 3/50. 
>
>Not quite, it's $1500 LIST trade in (gets discounted with everything else) and
>you HAVE TO send back the 3/50. It gets sent back in the sparcstation carton,
>gets an RMA number, instructions on how to modify the carton's foam to protect
>the 3/50, etc.
>> 
>> Now, what is NeXT going to do with all those old '030 boards?
>
>I too am curious what they (or sun with the 3/50's) do with them.
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Sun offices are all tied in to big networks, so everybody has a machine.
Obviously, you don't want your secretaries to be Word Processing on
a SparcSTATION 2, but neither do you want them to be using a PC Clone,
not when you manufacture the competition for PCs.  So they take SUN 3s,
refurbish them, update the software, and hide them away with secretaries
and loading clerks.  That's what I heard anyway.


--John Gossman
SoftSource.