kleine@ira.uka.de (Karl Kleine -- FZI Karlsruhe) (05/06/89)
I remember to have seen a couple of weeks or months ago a note here about the bad quality of the connector of the 3/75 power supply to the backplane. We just had two of them burned to pieces. In one case our technican had simply swapped the power supply half a year ago, when it wasn't that bad, but these beasts are now biting back. I need that old message, and any additional evidence of similar cases from the net so that i can put it all on Sun Germany's desk ... It used some hard words and it's message was ``design fault''. As we are on the subject: The recent book ``Thriving on Chaos'' by Peters (the same Peters who wrote ``in Search of Excellence'') has quite a lot to say about the decline of US industry and the role resp. non-role of quality in all kinds of goods produced in the US in that process. Maybe someeone could buy a truckload of copies for the SUN corporate library :-). That connector isn't the only item i don't like, but on the other hand... You're always biased, but it would be a shame if such nasty things would make us hate these otherwise so cute boxes. It's just that there were so many such cases recently. Karl Kleine, Forschungszentrum Informatik Haid-und-Neu-Str. 10-14, D-7500 Karlsruhe, West Germany kleine@uka.uucp, {...}!unido!uka!kleine, kleine@germany.csnet, +49-721-690639