riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) (02/23/88)
We are looking to buy a new or used 2 Megabyte RAM expansion board for the
UNIX PC, AT&T part number 405056359. Please quote a price and send a brief
history of the board to me at one of the addresses below. Thanks.
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--- telephone (409)-761-4701riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle ) (02/27/88)
> We are looking to buy a new or used 2 Megabyte RAM expansion board for the > UNIX PC, AT&T part number 405056359. Please quote a price and send a brief > history of the board to me at one of the addresses below. Thanks. I haven't received any positive responses from the net, but for any of you who are shopping for memory yourselves, I found another source you might be interested in: A company called Piiceon makes its own 2-Mb memory board for the UNIX PC. The boards were out of production for a while, but they're doing another run and my impression is that they will continue to do so as long as there are buyers. Given that AT&T boards are hard to find, this is an encouraging thought. Piiceon's prices are also better than AT&T's. The only fly I've found in the ointment so far is an unconfirmed rumor that the Piiceon boards work well with 7300s but that a certain fraction of them flake out with 3B1s. Piiceon has told me that they hope to fix the problem and that they will happily trade boards with anyone who has problems until the luck of the draw yields one that works. Anyway, if you think this possibility is worth exploring, Piiceon's sales rep is Rod Gilchrist at 512-328-5614. [I have no connection with Piiceon except as a potential customer.] --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of my employer. --- riddle@woton.UUCP {ihnp4,harvard}!ut-sally!im4u!woton!riddle
brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) (03/10/88)
In article <1030@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes: >> We are looking to buy a new or used 2 Megabyte RAM expansion board for the >> UNIX PC [...] >A company called Piiceon makes its own 2-Mb memory board for the UNIX >PC. I have a little more information on this topic to share. I spoke with the Piiceon (sp?) sales rep, and he told me the following: 1. The mem boards they currently supply are hard-wired to a low-end address of 512Kb. That is, the boards supply memory in the addressable range 512K to 2Mb+512Kb. Thus the boards aren't quite right for machines such as mine, with 2Mb on the motherboard. Translation: we'd have to let Craig Votava loose on them with his soldering tools. 2. Piiceon is very soon (a few days?) starting a production run of various models of mem board upgrades with different addressable memory ranges, including those that start at 2Mb. 3. Piiceon has made an arrangement to sell all their boards to Technology Resource Center (TRC). Apparently, TRC bought out AT&T's stock of UNIXpc's to sell on their own. They want to be the sole supplier of the mem upgrades manufactured by Piiceon. 4. I was assured that the upgrades would be "very competitively priced" by TRC, whatever the heck that means. 5. The sales rep (Rod Gilchrist) asked me to have people direct their inquiries to: Ellis Goldberg Technology Resource Center +1 213 934 9611 (Los Angeles) 428 North Formosa Ave Los Angeles, CA 90036 Who knows, maybe these Piiceon/TRC folks may end up taking over for the now-defunct (apparently) Amperfax. -- Brant Cheikes University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant
wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes) (03/12/88)
In article <342@manta.UUCP> brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes: > [talking about Piiceon memory boards] >4. I was assured that the upgrades would be "very competitively >priced" by TRC, whatever the heck that means. I have spoken with both Rod Gilchrist of Piiceon and Ellis Goldberg of TRC. Mr. Gilchrist quoted me a price of $800 for the board, and Mr. Goldberg informed me that TRC would honor Piiceon's price. TRC also has the ATT "combo board" (2 serial ports + 512K, upgradable to 1.5M) for the same price. I noticed an ad in _UnixWorld_ (Feb. '88, pg. 83) for an outfit in Georgia called Digital Data Systems which claimed that the 3B1's disk was "expandable to 114MB". Anyone know what they're talking about? (I called them and was not able to talk to anyone who knew anything.) John Wilkes -- -- @work: -- {decwrl,ames,pyramid,prls}!mips!wilkes -- OR, for those of great faith: -- wilkes@mips.com
mpatnode@polyslo.UUCP (Mike Patnode) (03/13/88)
In article <342@manta.UUCP> brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes) writes: %In article <1030@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes: %>> We are looking to buy a new or used 2 Megabyte RAM expansion board for the %>> UNIX PC [...] %>A company called Piiceon makes its own 2-Mb memory board for the UNIX %>PC. % %I have a little more information on this topic to share. I spoke with %the Piiceon (sp?) sales rep, and he told me the following: % %1. The mem boards they currently supply are hard-wired to a low-end %address of 512Kb. That is, the boards supply memory in the %addressable range 512K to 2Mb+512Kb. Thus the boards aren't quite %right for machines such as mine, with 2Mb on the motherboard. %Translation: we'd have to let Craig Votava loose on them with his %soldering tools. % %2. Piiceon is very soon (a few days?) starting a production run of %various models of mem board upgrades with different addressable memory %ranges, including those that start at 2Mb. % %3. Piiceon has made an arrangement to sell all their boards to %Technology Resource Center (TRC). Apparently, TRC bought out AT&T's %stock of UNIXpc's to sell on their own. They want to be the sole %supplier of the mem upgrades manufactured by Piiceon. % %4. I was assured that the upgrades would be "very competitively %priced" by TRC, whatever the heck that means. % %5. The sales rep (Rod Gilchrist) asked me to have people direct their %inquiries to: % % Ellis Goldberg % Technology Resource Center % +1 213 934 9611 (Los Angeles) % 428 North Formosa Ave % Los Angeles, CA 90036 % %Who knows, maybe these Piiceon/TRC folks may end up taking over for %the now-defunct (apparently) Amperfax. %-- %Brant Cheikes %University of Pennsylvania %Department of Computer and Information Science %ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant I recently got TRC's catalogue and it lists the 2MB RAM expansion as $1,495. Other products include the following: 1. Dual rs232 ports $395 2. Dual rs232 with 512k $795 3. 5 slot expansion bus $1699 4. 23MB external tape $1369 5. 40MB upgrade for 7300 $2995 6. 67MB upgrade for 7300 $3395 7. DOS-73 coprocessor $795 I have no relationship what-so-ever with TRC. -- Mike "Dodger" Patnode | (n) ..csustan!polyslo!mpatnode Yitbos Innovations Inc. | (s) ..sdsu!polyslo!mpatnode 244 California Blvd | mpatnode@polyslo.UUCP San Luis Obispo, Ca 92630 | (805) 541-2048 / 543-9818 / 756-2516
wilkes@mips.COM (John Wilkes) (03/16/88)
In article <1538@polyslo.UUCP> mpatnode@polyslo.UUCP (Mike Patnode) writes: > >I recently got TRC's catalogue and it lists the 2MB RAM expansion as >$1,495. That's their price for AT&T 2M boards, not Piiceon. Their price for Piiceon 2M boards is $800, I think. >Other products include the following: > 1. Dual rs232 ports $395 They do not have any of these in stock, nor are they likely to in the future, unless somebody starts producing them again. > 2. Dual rs232 with 512k $795 They do have these in stock, and if you have a DRAM source, you can plug on an additional 1M for 1.5M total on the board. > 6. 67MB upgrade for 7300 $3395 And I paid around $2300 for a 2M/67M 3B1 including 3.51 and development set! TRC themselves still have a few 3B1s in stock for considerably less than $3395! >I have no relationship what-so-ever with TRC. Me, neither. Other than a potential customer, that is. John Wilkes -- -- @work: -- {decwrl,ames,pyramid,prls}!mips!wilkes -- OR, for those of great faith: -- wilkes@mips.com