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From: garnett@cs.utexas.edu (John William Garnett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: "Reversed fan problem" -- serial no. ranges
Keywords: fan dust cube 68030
Message-ID: <1018@nada.cs.utexas.edu>
Date: 8 Dec 90 05:13:02 GMT
References: <1990Dec7.002527.358@Busl.COM>
Organization: UT at Austin, Dept. of CS
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In article <1990Dec7.002527.358@Busl.COM> cbradley@Busl.COM (Chris Bradley) writes:
>1989.  The serial number of the last "wrong-way fan" machine was
>in the neighbourhood of AAK0004000.
>

I can provide one piece of evidence that verifies that AAK0004000 number.
My cube has a fan that blows in the right direction and its serial number
is greater than AAK0004000 (less than 500 greater).

However, NeXT Inc. has claimed to at least one person (via telephone)
that the machines with the new fan design were introduced over time
(mixed in with machines having the old style fan) so that there is
no sharp cutoff in serial numbers between the two models.  I would
assume that if the previous sentences in this paragraph are correct,
then some small number of the cubes with serial numbers sequentially
less than AAK0004000 have new style fans.

-- 
John Garnett
                              University of Texas at Austin
garnett@cs.utexas.edu         Department of Computer Science
                              Austin, Texas