jml@druny.UUCP (01/10/84)
Has anyone out there heard of a company called Silicon Valley Micro? It has announced a transportable micro called "Go For It!". Below is a list of standard features from a flyer they sent me. $5,000 Model | $10,000 Model ________________________________|_________________________________________ NS32032 & Intel 8088 | NS32032 & 8088 | 128 KB for NS32032 | 1.5 MB for NS32032 384 KB for Intel 8088 | .5 MB for Intel 8088 | 2 Half Height 5-1/4 " | 2 Half Height 5-1/4" Double-sided double-density | Double-sided double-density 360 KB per drive | 360 KB per drive | - | 5 1/4", 140 MB Maxtor harddisk | 80 col builtin thermal printer | 80 col builtin thermal printer | - | 1/4", 60 MB streamer tape | 9", amber, 80x25 monitor | 9", amber, 80x25 monitor | UNIX subset, MS-DOS 2.0, C | UNIX 5.0, MS-DOS 2.0, C | Keytronic (IBM-PC) keyboard | Keytronic (IBM-PC) keyboard | 1 RS232 Serial port | 1 RS232 Serial port 1 RS232C Parallel port | 1 RS232C Parallel port ________________________________|_________________________________________ Extra Cost Options: 64 KB chip, ram expansion up to 2MB MS-BASIC Compiler 256 KB chip, ram expansion up to 2MB MS-Business BASIC Compiler 380 MB, Maxtor disk drive MS-Pascal Compiler Speech Recognition MS-C Compiler Voice Output MS-muLISP/muSTAR Compiler Touch Sensitizers FORTRAN 77 Compiler Mouse VisiON Operating Environment Handwriting input Communications 230v, 50 Hz (European power supply) President: Gene Finkler The address is: 4010 Moorpark Ave, #213 San Jose, CA 95117 Phone #s: 408 246-1101 408 246-1102 408 246-1103 408 246-1104 I saw two of these machines at Comdex but wasn't allowed to touch them, let alone play with them. The machines were supposed to be running MS-DOS and UNIX but, I couldn't say for sure from looking at the demos. Gene Finlker wasn't very informative or friendly since I wasn't a dealer. If anyone has some more info I'm sure others on the net would like to hear about it. Also, if some of our friends in the Bay Area could possibly check into this company I'd appreciate it. I heard that David Fiedler of UNIX Review was very interested in the machine, so, maybe in the next issue there will be an article. John Leon druny!jml AT&T Information Systems Labs 11900 N. Pecos St. Denver, Co. 80234 303 538-3501 P.S. If you have some info, you can call me collect.
schnable@ihuxf.UUCP (Andrew T. Schnable) (01/10/84)
Just what exactly is an RS-232C PARALLEL port? Andy ihuxf!schnable
crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell) (01/11/84)
> Just what exactly is an RS-232C PARALLEL port?
That's easy: a pair of 1488s and 1489s fed by SIMD UARTs.
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Jim ({ihnp4,kpno,ut-ngp}!ut-sally!crandell or crandell@ut-sally.UUCP)msc@qubix.UUCP (Mark Callow) (01/16/84)
I saw an advert for Silicon Valley Micro and its products. It
sounded to good to be true.
The address at least is genuine. It's right next door to Motorola's
Silicon Valley sales office. They are a couple of miles up the road from
here. Maybe I'll go and check them out sometime.
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