[net.micro.att] Recent AT&T unix pc product announcement

jhc@mtune.UUCP (Jonathan Clark) (09/03/86)

On August 22 AT&T announced four more products for the unix pc.
In no particular order, they are:

IRMA card - makes your unix pc look like a 3270 tube of some variety.
voice card - turns your unix pc into an answering machine, can send
	voice mail to similarly equipped people, &c.
expansion chassis - gives you, er, 9 (? I forget) extra card slots
	into which you can plug all these goodies.
Ethernet interface - Wollongong's TCP/IP implementation.

Everything except the voice card is general availability - the voice
card is in CI (Controlled Introduction - ie you probably can't buy it
yet). I have no information on prices, COM codes, PEC codes, delivery
or anything else.

I actually know very little more about these products. I have seen an
expansion box full of voice cards working, and both are really spiffy.
I know that the Ether board works, but don't know exactly what comes
with the software, or even if it is the same as the 3B2 version.

Now that these products are officially out, perhaps some of the people
who worked on them could tell us a little more about them?

I admit to being misled on this one - I claimed yesterday on the net
that there was no announced Ethernet product and I was wrong. The
reason I didn't know is that AT&T unix pc Product Management only
announced the availability of these items to the Marketing
organizations, not to the developers. Sigh.

-- 
Jonathan Clark
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My walk has become rather more silly lately.