Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!sun-barr!decwrl!shelby!portia!forel!karish
From: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: terminals/term. servers
Summary: Prices
Message-ID: <5662@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Date: 8 Oct 89 08:24:16 GMT
References: <wZ_XRne00WB4I4M4kT@andrew.cmu.edu> <3365@amelia.nas.nasa.gov>
Sender: USENET News System <news@Portia.stanford.edu>
Reply-To: karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish)
Organization: Mindcraft, Inc.
Lines: 15

In article <3365@amelia.nas.nasa.gov> samlb@pioneer.arc.nasa.gov
(Sam Bassett RCD) wrote:

>	BTW -- we have quite a few Annex boxes from Encore around here,
>which take up to 32 serial lines and put them on the Ethernet -- as I
>understand it, they cost in the high 5 to low 6 digits -- very
>convenient.

They don't cost that much.  The last I heard (three years ago) a Bridge
14-port box cost between $4000 and $5000 (educational institution; not
as big a discount as DEC offers).  The per-port cost should be less for
a bigger server.

	Chuck Karish		karish@mindcraft.com
	(415) 493-9000		karish@forel.stanford.edu