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Subject: Re: Symmetrics s375
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Date: Thu, 12-Jun-86 17:32:32 EDT
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RE: 
    We got a flier from an outfit in San Jose, CA called Symmetrics
    that sells 4.2 Unix machines using National Semi's 32000 series
    chips for $5k to $10k. My question is, does anyone has seen the
    little machines? Are they for real? We are thinking of a getting
    a few sight unseen which is not very wise and I was hoping some
    out there could help us.

I saw one at a Usenix meeting.  It seemed to work, but I didn't
really test it.  It was very small, and had good specs for the money.
As I recall, it had 4M Ram, 50M Disk, FULL 4.2 (no subsetting!), an
ethernet port, a 1M floppy, a connector for scci drives/tapes, a
connector for more floppies, and an ethernet connection.  At the time
they wanted $9K if paid up front, and $10K with P.O.

If you buy some, please let us know how you like them.

      Mark LaCasse                  qantel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!randvax!lacasse
      c/o The Rand Corporation       cbosgd!ihnp4!sdcrdcf!randvax!lacasse
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