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newsgroups@raincode.net writes:

>Wow, so I guess I am surprised that you need to buy a SunSolve contract
>now just to look at pictures of the hardware in thr SunSystem Handbook.
> Sure, you can see the tiny pics that are barely larger than
>thumbnails.  But if I am considering buying a bew box from Sun and want
>to see close-ups of the guts, I need to pay for that opportunity?

>http://sunsolve.sun.com/pub-cgi/show.pl?target=home

>I would guess Sun may set you up with a temp user/pass if you called
>the Sales folks.....perhaps.  But what's the big deal of looking at
>pics?

>Is there another favorite location everyone goes just to browse pics of
>the hardware?  I sometimes do it just for entertainment
>purposes....which then sometimes spurs new purchase ideas.

I've got a Sun hardware picture archive on my SunShack website at:

http://www.sunshack.org/data/sunpix.html

which is by no means complete but I add to it whenever I come across good
pictures of things I don't yet have pics of in the archive. I also have a
Sun Field Engineer and System Handbook archive at:

http://www.sunshack.org/data/feh.html

I don't know if Sun have released the System Handbook on CD at all since
v2.1 of the CDROM version was produced a couple of years back. 

It seems Sun's senior management are trying to force everyone who wants
access to the full System Handbook material to buy a service contract and
use SunSolve to access the material. That's totally impractical for home
users, students, or small businesses where they're not running
current-generation systems for which a service contract is probably not
worth the expense, so my FEH/SH archive it totally free to access.

Regards,

Craig.
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