8 Apr
2017
8 Apr
'17
5:31 a.m.
While going through papers recently we found what was
I am reasonably
sure the quote for the first Sun sold in Scotland which might be of some
interest (inevitably I now don't know where it is, although we did not
throw it away). We're not sure whether it is for that machine, but we
are sure that my wife (who isn't on the list) ran it (a 2/120 we think).
It started out with SunOS 1 (or perhaps before).
In 1984 the Programming Systems Groups in Edinburgh's AI department
was contracted by SERC to evaluate workstations for its "Common Base"
program. We had a Sun 2/120, a Whitechapel MG-1, an Apollo Domain
system, and I think we already had at least one PNX Perq.
We recommended Suns. I can't find the report we wrote anywhere
online, but I'm fairly sure I've seen it in the last couple of years.
Presumably we gave the evaluation 2/120 back to Sun and bought the one
mentioned by Tim (it was called "islay" unless I have become confused)
a bit later, in 1985.
-- Richard
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