[SPARCbook] passwd cracking

[paul daley]

Hey folks,

  Let's put this to rest. Here's the real deal with the $400 SPARCbooks. A 
client of Tadpole's bought 1108
special GX systems with no manuals, 2.5.1 loaded, no OS disks or docs, no 
cables and a  trackball.
After two years the client software was ported to NT and our client sold 
the lot to Herman Miller/SQA who sold them
for $400-$800.They were not the end users, just a clearing house.
  Before the systems were sold off, Tadpole refurbished each batch for a 
nice profit. Because the SPARCbook
was still in production at the time, we did not offer any deals to the $400 
customer. Since that time Tadpole's
After Market Sales team has,with the help of the owner of this list (Mr 
Bill) been able to offer numerous parts
and items at VERY reasonable and fair prices.
  Some things we are not yet allowed to discount i.e.. current operating 
systems. When we can place the drivers
on the ftp site this list will be the very first to know because it's users 
like you, that spread the Tadpole name and we value
your support of our products regardless of what you paid for it.
  It's our practice in After Market Sales, that if you mention SunHelp.Org 
you never pay retail on an order. My boss get's
mad if I give away the store so we do what we can to help you knowing most 
of you don't have 20K to spend. But your
$25 or $30 order is just as important to us because your our advocates. 
Remember, we (Tadpole) have to sell things to eat around
here.
  I hope this clears things up. If not, I tried.

Paul
After Market Sales
Tadpole




At 06:01 PM 11/8/00 -0500, you wrote:
>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.
>
>
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