Sun 1/100U

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Fri Feb 12 23:20:27 1999

Well, I'm taking a few polaroid's of a Sun 1/100U, and noticed a few strange
things. First, Sun liked to place round colored stickers on the boards, and
they placed the date and a persons initials on the sticker.

The strange thing is, on the cpu board, the sticker is dated 3-22-81, which
is 2 years before this board was created! Sun 'upgraded' these units to use
sun 2 cpu's, and the company only started shipping the first Sun 1 units
in May of 82, and the 3Com board has a date of 9-21-83 which makes more
reasonable sense to me (I had heard that we purchased the last of the Sun 1
units and a bunch of sun 2's, as part of a package discount deal). Anyways,
it seems strange.

Another strange thing about that cpu card, is that sun apparently didnt
have any 24 pin DIP sockets, because they placed 16 and 8 pin DIP sockets
next to each other on two occasions to form a larger socket!

Oh, and I've always wondered about the 3 MBIT connector on the back of
the unit, which is in addition to the 10 MBIT connector.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Fri Feb 12 1999 - 23:20:27 GMT