> 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.
Probably test and QA markers.
>
> 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's possible the board was created in 3/22/81 and the rest of
the system took a year to finish being designed and assembled.
> 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!
Probably cheaper at the time.
>
> 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.
The original PARC Xeros ethernet was that speed...
>
> -Lawrence LeMay
>
>
Bill Pechter
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