[SPARCbook] passwd cracking

[Ken Hansen]

My understanding was that these were used by office furniture sales folks to
configure office furniture "systems" for clients. I suspect they were almost
never run on batteries, that they included trackballs indicates that they
were probably set up for an extended period of time (all day) as opposed to
being "whipped out" to dazzle a client.

That they were kept clean and in a high state of repair is due to their use
as a sales tool (if programmer had them, there would all sorts of sugar and
caffine related stains I bet), and that many of them were run through Rave
(Warranty depot) one last time before being sold on the open market. The
machines were removed from active service while under a very good maint.
contract, IMHO.

Ken
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Strange" <wstrange at polarisdata.com>
To: <n2vip at bellatlantic.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 5:56 PM
Subject: Re: [SPARCbook] passwd cracking


> Right again.  These are real work-stations, just a bit more portable than
> most.  I use mine [3000XT] for software development supporting a data
> processing operation.  Most of the systems purchased from Ross Pennington,
and
> I am guessing/extrapolating here, were either not used at all or were used
as
> inexpensive introductions to the Sun Solaris world.