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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

26 Nov 2022 at 5:21 | Wall-to-wall | Open on mastodon.social
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Graham Sutherland / 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.

26 Nov 2022 at 5:23 | Open on chaos.social
Graham Sutherland / 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

26 Nov 2022 at 5:24 | Open on chaos.social
Mike Spooner

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

1 Nov 2023 at 6:11 | Open on oldbytes.space
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.

1 Nov 2023 at 6:15 | Open on oldbytes.space
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