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Date:    Mon, 5 Feb 90 18:33:18 PST
From:    puckett@pearson.llnl.gov (Elbridge Gerry Puckett)
Subject: Request for Information on Third Party Vendors

I'm preparing to buy a SPARC Station from SUN and I'm curious about
options (eg. Solbourne), third party memory, disk drives, and other users
experience with these items.  I'd like to keep my bill under $7500-8000
(educational price).  I'm contemplating a SPARC Station with a 17"
monochrome monitor, two 100 meg drives and an extra 4 or 8 meg of third
party memory.  One consideration is that I probably won't be connected to
ethernet for a year or two but I will have a TOPS connection to several
SUN servers and (hopefully) the outside world so my machine will have to
function as a stand alone system.

Does anyone have any experience with a comparably priced Solbourne
workstation (does one exist?) or other workstation?  How about disk drives
- can I get more disk for less money and how difficult is it to install
these drives?  Are there any problems getting SUN OS up and running if I
go with a third party drive?  What is the best price for memory and is it
reliable?

Please respond directly to me via e-mail.  

              puckett@crg.llnl.gov

I am a first time user of the news program and unfamiliar with its ways.

                                             Thank you,
                                             - Gerry Puckett