[rescue] WTF? Micros**t used Suns!

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Jul 30 09:26:18 CDT 2002


On July 30, Michael Hansen wrote:
> I found 4 Suns in a pile at a PeeCee junk shop.
> (2 SS1s, 1 SS1+, and an IPC) with >Micros**t<
> asset tags. What do you suppose the creeps form
> Redmond wanted with real computers? I bought the
> SS1+ for use as a spare router, and for the
> novelty of having a Sun which was once in the
> service of the evil empire. Judging by the
> storage tag, it was in use, or at least in
> someone's office, until March, 1999. I once
> saw an SGI Indigo in an office there, but I had no idea they used Suns.

  I guess some of them got tired of their machines crashing.

      -Dave

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