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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