[net.micro.mac] Applebus Product Info Needed

bart@reed.UUCP (Bart Massey) (01/12/86)

[ I also sent this message to info-applebus, but UUCP people seem to have ]
[ predictably not seen it.  My apologies to anyone who sees it twice.	  ]

     We at Reed college  have a large (  >$100K ) amount  of
money to  spend on  networking in  the near  ( <  3 mo.    )
future.  Our current computing resources are an 11/785 and a
large ( > 300 ) number of Apple Macintoshes ( we are one  of
the charter AUC schools ). We'd  like to spend the money  on
applebus fileservers and ethernet gateways.   Unfortunately,
we can't seem to find any viable commercial products of this
sort.  It has to be a fully supported commercial product, as
we don't  have  the  personnel  to  develop  or  support  it
ourselves.

     So what we'd  like to  know is: Do  such things  exist?
What is the  price range?   Will such  things definitely  be
appearing in the next few months?

     PLEASE respond if  you have  any information  -- if  we
don't get a good lead very soon, we will be forced to go  an
entirely different route (XENIX workstations)...

					Thanks for your help,
					Bart Massey
					...tektronix!reed!bart