[SunRescue] Sun Enterprise-820R and Sun Blade 100 ?

[Mattias Paulsson]

> My good friend, Dave the Sun Man, just got got an email from Sun
> saying his Blades would ship next week. Of course 3 weeks ago they
> told him it would be 8 weeks. Last week it was 2 weeks. It seems they
> are having problems with the "button memory". As to 820R's they had no
> answer. There was suppose to be an announcement this week of new
> hardware to coincide with end of like of some previous machines. It seems
> everything is on hold for the moment.

The Blade 100 is still supposed to be the new low-cost workstation that will replace Ultra-5? Given their latest offerings with Netra-X1 it might be very affordable then. I would very much like to have some newer sun equipment at home (right now I can't say that a sparc station 10 is new) ... 

/Pson