For a brief-ish period, Sun would happily sell you diskless Sun workstations that did everything an XTerminal did plus offered local computing. Two of the univ

For a brief-ish period, Sun would happily sell you diskless Sun workstations that did everything an XTerminal did plus offered local computing. Two of the universities in town had labs of them for students, all booted remotely, all the storage on a bigger Sun down in the server room, ugly coaxial ethernet everywhere and those funky blue/silver mouse pads and optical mice. My boss at the time was pretty dark on Sun, because they sold her a lab full of Sun 3 workstations without telling her the Sparcstations would be released shortly afterwards.