dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) (01/18/90)
To those of you who had been wondering what was happening with the
group-purchase of 68881 PMMU chips being arranged by some guys at
Claremont Colleges... the deal has apparently fallen through. I got my
un-cashed check back in today's mail, with no explanation.
No great loss, I suppose... street-prices for the 68881 have come down
quite a bit since September, there are a good number of vendors offering
it in MacWeek, and Connectix was (and perhaps still is) offering a very
attractive price for a PMMU bundled with a copy of Virtual.
I guess I'll wait until I get my hands on a copy of System 7.0 before
investing...
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USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303dce@smsc.sony.com (David Elliott) (01/18/90)
In article <44837@improper.coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes: >To those of you who had been wondering what was happening with the >group-purchase of 68881 PMMU chips being arranged by some guys at >Claremont Colleges... the deal has apparently fallen through. I got my >un-cashed check back in today's mail, with no explanation. I can give a little insight into this. Last September, I was in the throes of moving, and when I got settled into my new job, I found a mail message from Tad Blakeley saying that some of us had sent checks made out incorrectly and needed to send them again. I sent mine in, and tried to contact Tad via email, but never got a reply. Back in October (a couple of days after the quake), I got Tad on the phone, and he said that he was planning to send in the order in another week or so. As the year wore on, I sent more email and even posted a note, but the only reply I ever got was from Dave Platt, who was also wondering what happened. Around December 15, I finally caught up with Tad by phone. His response was basically that he had not made the order, was in the middle of finals, and did not know if the order would be sent in any time soon. By this time, PMMU prices were down to around $150, so I asked for my check back, and he agreed. I decided to wait until I saw it before saying anything on the net. It appears that everyone is getting their money back. I'm glad that's over. I've had a bank account in Colorado that I haven't been able to close waiting for that damn check to clear. -- David Elliott dce@smsc.sony.com | ...!{uunet,mips}!sonyusa!dce (408)944-4073 "Never call a crazed psychotic a crazed psychotic."
mmaston@portia.Stanford.EDU (Michael Maston) (01/19/90)
In article <44837@improper.coherent.com> dplatt@coherent.com (Dave Platt) writes: >To those of you who had been wondering what was happening with the >group-purchase of 68881 PMMU chips being arranged by some guys at ^^^^^^^^^^ Just for your information, the PMMU from Motorola is the 68851. The 68881 is a floating point coprocessor for the 680x0 microprocessors. >Dave Platt VOICE: (415) 493-8805 > UUCP: ...!{ames,apple,uunet}!coherent!dplatt DOMAIN: dplatt@coherent.com > INTERNET: coherent!dplatt@ames.arpa, ...@uunet.uu.net > USNAIL: Coherent Thought Inc. 3350 West Bayshore #205 Palo Alto CA 94303 Mike