Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?

[Lucky Green]

On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:

>   Sun Microsystems Inc. said Wednesday it received two contracts from
>   NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center worth a total of $100 million. The
>   Mountain View-based company said the pact calls for software
>   development and the design about 34,000 computer-aided engineering
>   and design workstations. NASA will use the workstations to design
>   integrated circuits.

34,000 Sun workstations? If any of the software designers from Sun are 
reading this, I would like to make a suggestion as to the screensaver 
that will ship with every workstation.

--Lucky