When I started college in the fall of 1993 we had a lot of Sun SPARCstations around. They were older IPC and IPX machines. Around 1996 we started getting SPAR

When I started college in the fall of 1993 we had a lot of Sun SPARCstations around. They were older IPC and IPX machines. Around 1996 we started getting SPARCstation 4 and 5 models. I developed my senior design project (a neural network with GUI for OCR - Optical Character Recognition) It would take about 10 seconds to determine what character you you drew with the mouse The entire department had a big presentation day when all the faculty and people from businesses showed up to see our projects. I helped set up the auditorium the day before and we were unboxing brand new UltraSPARC I machines to use for our presentations. Our project ran so fast that I thought something was wrong. Everything went well but right after the event we literally boxed the machines back up. I thought that it would have been great to have those while we were developing the project. A month later in June 1997 I started my job and we had even faster UltraSPARC II 200MHz machines and then got an Ultra 2 300MHz box