jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) (04/26/89)
At one time the product support group for the AT&T 7300 (a.k.a Safari 4, 3b1) was up to 40 people. Now there is only one: Lil Nelson, the product manager. She will be moving on to bigger and better things as of Friday. I guess the old 7300 really is finally dead. Hmm, it doesn't FEEL dead. She says the mauals she had (Device Driver Writers Guide, Bus Spec, etc.) have been transfered to someone else. Knowing AT&T's attitude towards this machine of late, they must have been transfered to the person in charge of incineration. For those of you who know her, you might call and wish her well. For those of you with manuals HOLD ON TO THEM! John -- John Bly Milton IV, jbm@uncle.UUCP, n8emr!uncle!jbm@osu-cis.cis.ohio-state.edu (614) h:294-4823, w:764-2933; AMPR: 44.70.0.52; Don't FLAME, inform!
smikes@hound.UUCP (S.MIKES) (04/28/89)
In article <521@uncle.UUCP>, jbm@uncle.UUCP (John B. Milton) writes: > I guess the old 7300 really is finally dead. Hmm, it doesn't FEEL dead. John, It isn't dead yet. The 7300 was originally a joint development between AT&T and Convergent Technologies. Not only does Convergent still support this machine, but manuals and parts (spare and upgrades) are also available through Convergent's authorized outlets. Somewhere I have the name of their east coast VAR which deals with the UNIX PC 7300, I'll see if I can dig it up. Also, for any of you who are internal to AT&T, there is still quite a lot of support for the PC 7300 in MT, a group called DPTG - Distributed Programming Tools Group. I also seem to remember a few people in LZ that are still actively working on the UNIX kernel and other pieces of the operating system for the 7300; last I remember it was up to 3.5.6.d. I will post a follow up article to name the Convergent sources of support. Hope this doesn't get me into any hot water with AT&T, it's just that I think the 3b1 is a GREAT UNIX machine, I wish it had done better in the marketplace and I hate to see it die. Steve {...}hound!smikes