24 Jan
2017
24 Jan
'17
6:13 p.m.
On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 6:59 PM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
Admittedly, this was before the 432 was released in
any form, but I
recall "Fast Eddie" our Intel sales guy quoting us about $1K for a
chipset--this would have been about 1982. That was expensive in
anyone's book.
The 432 chips were sampling in early 1981, and in limited production in
mid-to-late 1981. (They were never in more than limited production.) They
weren't $1000 even then. Your salesman was either including the cost of a
lot of other components he thought you'd need, or was off his meds, or
something.