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skry

@gsuberland Something similar happened at Sun when a box was released with a new design: the CD drawer on the side. Turned out that if your box was in a rack, the drawer was inaccessible (all software was loaded that way, including the OS, because of bandwidth slowness and expense).

AFAIK it was not recalled, but many were returned. ancientelectronics.wordpress.c

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Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

@skry to be clear, in this context "recall" means "cause for return to manufacturer" rather than the kind of recall you'd do for a safety issue.

Graham Spookyland🎃/Polynomial

@skry there's a proper internal term for it but I didn't work on that side of the business and I have the memory of a goldfish

Mike Spooner

@skry @gsuberland Not so new, though. It's immediate predecessors, the SPARCstation-20 and SS-5 were the same layout.

Mike Spooner

@skry @gsuberland Although, it has to be noted that the Enterprise-150 (a version of the Ultra-1 in a large floor-standing chassis) had a truly spectacular failure-mode caused by its' physical design.

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