3Com Corp, which paid $4.1m to get Candlestick Park, the home of the San Francisco 49ers renamed 3Com Park for four and a half years, thought a good way to help get the company name even more well known would be to offer free Internet kiosks at the ground for fans to use, according to Investors Business Daily. It put Dell Latitude Pentium machines with 64Mb RAM in stainless steel and lexan cases to withstand even the most pumped-up fan. When it came to the operating system 3Com considered it a no-brainer: it had to be Unix. It opted for Solaris over NeXT Step and SCO Unix, and NT was never seriously considered. 3Com said it didn’t want to have to keep a person on site just to re-boot the machines.
