24 Jan
2017
24 Jan
'17
6:49 p.m.
On 01/24/2017 06:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
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.
It could have been 1981--I'm a little fuzzy about dates back then.
It could be that Bill Davidow thought that the 432 was a lost cause and
wanted to discourage us--after all he was on our BOD. But I do recall
the $1K chipset number and how that elicited a gasp.
--Chuck