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From: keithe@teklabs.UUCP (Keith Ericson)
Newsgroups: net.lan,net.micro.68k
Subject: followup on Motorola VMEbus LAN cards
Message-ID: <2837@teklabs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-May-84 18:23:24 EDT
Article-I.D.: teklabs.2837
Posted: Tue May  1 18:23:24 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 4-May-84 01:24:06 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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According to the local Motorola Field Engineer - who called the factory
for this information - the Motorola VMEbus LAN card is in production
but they are having problems getting the LANCE chip (I think it's a
68590) from Mostek. So they're building cards and stockpiling them
until they can fill the socket where the LANCE goes. They expect these
parts mid- to late-June, and hope to ship by July (probably the end of
July).

Pricing - in unit quantities - is in the neighborhood of $3000.  Price
is expected to go down, of course, but the first pioneers always get to
collect the arrows....

Higher-volume pricing structure has not yet been established.

Eventually Motorola will be making the LANCE chip themselves, but no
mention of that project's status was made.

keith ericson at teklabs