>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > As most of you are probably aware, Sun is now a
>> wholly-owned subsidiary
>> > of Oracle.
>> >
>> > An initial change resulting from that acquisition
>> involves updating the
>> > opensolaris.org website to reflect the new
>> ownership.
>> >
>> > Copyright text has been updated, and today the
>> Oracle logo will be added
>> > to the site pages.
>> >
>> > Thanks.
>> >
>> > Bonnie
>>
>> I think I may have scored the last Solaris Media Kit
>> shipped as
>>  "Sun Solaris" and not "Oracle Solaris" :
>>     http://www.blastwave.org/dclarke/blog/?q=node/148
>> etimes timing is everything.
>>
>> Onwards with regular business now :-)
>
<snip>

> One I always missed getting was the "Sun" glasses though.  Didn't look
> particularly special (I recall something vaguely like MIB only clunkier),
> but that was one of those catchy notions.  The yo-yos OTOH, blech.
> I've got a good yo-yo somewhere with ball bearings, that makes something
> that's not even a Duncan wannabe (let alone _real_ serious) seem pretty
> lame.

I have entirely too much swag and stuff piled all over the place. One of
the better items is a Sun coffee cup heater for your desk. Be darned if I
know where it is.

I'm just happy I got the order in and had it shipped by 26th Jan 2010.

> There are only two other souvenirs that I've seen people with that I ever
> really envied, and neither are Sun.  One was a gorgeous cobalt blue Cray
> coffee cup, and the other was the control panel of a Univac 494, with the
> big rectangular (think old grade-B sci-fi movie) buttons and  I think a
> mechanical digital clock in it too.  I've always been a pushover for
> buttons
> and blinkenlights, probably why I'm gabbing here and not so much on
> Facebook.  :-)

Well those old funky things are seriously cool. At least to me :-)

-- 
Dennis Clarke
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