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From: leres@ace.ee.lbl.gov (Craig Leres)
Newsgroups: comp.org.usenix
Subject: Re: Hospitality suites?
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Date: 6 Jun 89 23:50:45 GMT
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Roy Smith writes:
>       Everytime our Sun service tech comes around, he has a similar
> pocket gizmo, but with a RS-232-sized flat blade screwdriver on one end and
> a Sun-VME-chassis-screw sized hex wrench on the other.  Every time we ask
> him if we can have one, but everytime he refuses, claiming Sun doesn't give
> them out to customers, just to their service techs.  Listen up SUN:  that's

In addition to giving them away (as they have on numerous occasions, I
have one in my Cerveza Tecate mug next to my 3/260 head) Sun ought to
assign a part number and sell them. If they used the same markup rate
they use on their disk subsystems, it would be a real boost to profits.

		Craig