In what appear at present to be only the expected bugs in major new hardware generations, DEC has had to delay volume shipments of the firt of its top-end VAX 9000 machines, the non-expandable Model 210, to July from May: the delay has been caused by the need to re-engineer some of the chips and the company now intends to start volume ships of the 210 and the 410, an expandable uniprocessor, in July; the company had planned to ship 150 of the things in May and June, so it will lose close to $200m off its turnover for the year to June.
