kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) (06/21/89)
Has anyone in the world their received a real SPARCstation 1?
We ordered ours a few days after they were announced -- SUN still won't
give us a delivery date! Scott M. said they would be shipping in volume
by now at the big announcement.
Ken Greer
Elan Computer Group, Inc.
{ames,hplabs,uunet}!elan!kg
415-964-2200botticel@olympus.crd.ge.com (David J. Botticello) (06/22/89)
In article <3925@kalliope.rice.edu> elan!kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) writes: >X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 38, message 17 of 24 > >Has anyone in the world their received a real SPARCstation 1? > >We ordered ours a few days after they were announced -- SUN still won't >give us a delivery date! Scott M. said they would be shipping in volume >by now at the big announcement. > We got ours! We ordered them in March (pre-anounce), received them in MAy, and have JUST RECENTLY got the software to run them!! It seems Sun expected everyone to buy internal disks with them. We use strictly a server environment, and 4.0 is not enough to boot them from. We had to wait for 4.0.3! And loading 4.0.3 on a 4.0.1 4/280 is best the subject of yet another message. *Needless to say, I speak for my own experiences/ your mileage may vary, and my employers' is not reflected by my opinions. Dave Botticello - GE CRD - phone(voice) 518-387-6065 Home 518-393-8671 E-mail - botticel@orion.crd.ge.com or uunet!steinmetz!orion!botticel or botticello@crd.ge.com or botticel%orion@steinmetz.UUCP land - 1 River Road KWB-1606 Schenectady, N.Y. 12301
ehrlich@shire.cs.psu.edu (Daniel Robert Ehrlich) (06/22/89)
In article <3925@kalliope.rice.edu> elan!kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) writes:
...
Has anyone in the world their received a real SPARCstation 1?
We ordered ours a few days after they were announced -- SUN still won't
give us a delivery date! Scott M. said they would be shipping in volume
by now at the big announcement.
The folks in our AI group order a few and I do not know if they have even
been given a ship date yet much less recieved any hardware. I do know
that one that was ordered for the geography department had a `supposed'
ship date of June 19th.
--Dan Ehrlich
--
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The Pennsylvania State University | my own, and should not be attributed
Department of Computer Science | to anyone else, living or dead.
University Park, PA 16802 |ekrell@ulysses.att.com (06/22/89)
>Has anyone in the world their received a real SPARCstation 1?
There's a cover page story in the June 19th issue of InfoWorld:
"SparcStation Deliveries Delayed"
According to this article, there were early problems with the Sparc IU
made by LSI Logic Inc. and Gene Banman, director of product marketing for
Sun's entry systems group, said it would be probably 2 months before the
backlog disappears.
This doesn't affect 330's, 370's and 390's which use a different
processor.
We ordered a color and a monochrome 4/60 and a 3/80. We got the 3/80 a
week ago. I called our sales rep and I was told the shipment dates for our
4/60's were June 30th for the color one and August 6 for the monochrome
one. --
Eduardo Krell AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ
UUCP: {att,decvax,ucbvax}!ulysses!ekrell Internet: ekrell@ulysses.att.comhjp@uunet.uu.net (Howard J. Postley) (06/23/89)
In article <3925@kalliope.rice.edu>, elan!kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) writes: > Has anyone in the world their received a real SPARCstation 1? > > We ordered ours a few days after they were announced -- SUN still won't > give us a delivery date! Scott M. said they would be shipping in volume > by now at the big announcement. > > Ken Greer > Elan Computer Group, Inc. > {ames,hplabs,uunet}!elan!kg > 415-964-2200 From what I understand, the volume shipments of the SS 1 aren't really expected until October; one reason that Sun is expecting a loss - lack of revenue during the ramp-up for all of Q3. I gather that their HP mini got really swamped with some of the stuff that they just implemented, and the Amdahl that got installed isn't fully running yet. Must have been a big problem to have had forced such a rude, immediate switchover //hjp -- Howard Postley internet: hjp@bambam.bedrock.com Ideal Point, Inc. uucpnet: uunet!bambam!hjp phonenet: +1 215 578 6901 uspsnet: 13428 Maxella Av M/S 236; Marina del Rey, CA 90292
keyles@rubbs.fidonet.org (Michael Keyles) (06/23/89)
# From: elan!kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) # Has anyone in the world their received a real # SPARCstation 1? I just got my first 5 yesterday. I expect some more by the end of the month. It may look funny, but it is fast. Mike -- Michael Keyles - via FidoNet node 1:107/520 UUCP: ...!rutgers!rubbs!keyles ARPA: keyles@rubbs.FIDONET.ORG
ix@uunet.uu.net (Redaktion c't/ix) (06/27/89)
In the next issue of iX, a German bimonthly mag on Unix and related topics, In the issue of iX Magazine, a German bimonthly on Unix and related topics, you will read a detailed review of the SPARCstation1, in comparison to DECs DECstation 3100.
danq@cs.utexas.edu (Daniel Quinlan) (06/28/89)
In article <4020@kalliope.rice.edu> you write: |X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 44, message 8 of 20 | |In article <3925@kalliope.rice.edu> elan!kg@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Ken Greer) writes: |>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 8, Issue 38, message 17 of 24 |> |>Has anyone in the world their received a real SPARCstation 1? |> |>We ordered ours a few days after they were announced -- SUN still won't |>give us a delivery date! Scott M. said they would be shipping in volume |>by now at the big announcement. |> | |We got ours! We ordered them in March (pre-anounce), received them in MAy, |and have JUST RECENTLY got the software to run them!! It seems Sun |expected everyone to buy internal disks with them. We use strictly a |server environment, and 4.0 is not enough to boot them from. We had to |wait for 4.0.3! And loading 4.0.3 on a 4.0.1 4/280 is best the subject of |yet another message. | |*Needless to say, I speak for my own experiences/ your mileage may vary, |and my employers' is not reflected by my opinions. | |Dave Botticello - GE CRD - phone(voice) 518-387-6065 Home 518-393-8671 |E-mail - botticel@orion.crd.ge.com or uunet!steinmetz!orion!botticel or | botticello@crd.ge.com or botticel%orion@steinmetz.UUCP |land - 1 River Road KWB-1606 Schenectady, N.Y. 12301 I just recently got the four diskless sparcstations I ordered in March, and I have the 4.0.3 software installed on a Sun 4/280. However, I haven't been able to get them to boot, and Sun has told me I need a Sun 4c patch tape. You didn't mention that, so have you been successful booting your machines without the patch tape? Mine doesn't get very far; it returns from the boot attempt with the message "file not found". I'm not entirely convinced the wrong software is to blame, but that's what Sun service says. One neat thing is the forth in the rom -- does yours have that, or are we a special case? On ours, if you say n or c after the boot fails, you're talking to (Mitch Bradley's) forth -- at least 100k of it! Anyway, I'd appreciate any suggestions you might have to get my diskless machines working. Thanks in advance. Daniel Quinlan danq@sag4.ssl.berkeley.edu Space Sciences Laboratory UC Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720 415/643-7893
hari@zippysun.math.uakron.edu (Dr. S.I.Hariharan) (07/01/89)
Has any one received SPARC station 1 17" mononchrome version yet? I read different versions of availability of the machines in Sun-Spots-Digest v8n44. Our sales rep says it will be available possibly some time in July. Hari (S.I. Hariharan) Math. Dept. University of Akron, Akron, OH 44325. Email:hari@zippysun.math.uakron.edu Thanks