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Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ICM 3216
Message-ID: <590@csun.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 11:09:34 EST
Article-I.D.: csun.590
Posted: Wed Mar 25 11:09:34 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 00:40:17 EST
References: <1775@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Organization: California State University, Northridge
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Summary: ICM 3216 Yes

In article <1775@a.cs.okstate.edu>, rjs@a.cs.okstate.edu (Roland Stolfa) writes:
> About a year ago, several gentlemen from National Semi. came to Oklahoma
> State University with a fairly impressive little machine.  It was a then
> new card set called a "ICM 3216".  It used a 32016 with the rest of the
> family (MMU, FPU, etc...).  It was available to colleges and universities
> for about $1125 and came with
> 
> 	1 M memory
> 	4 RS-232 ports
> 	1 Centronix port
> 	a SCSI port (for hard disk and tape backup system)
> 	a "plastic wrapper" Sys 5 V 2 Unix distribution
> 
> My question to the net is, has anyone other than me, heard of this little
> beastie?  Even more interesting is what is its current status now that
> National has killed the 320XX series?
Not only have we here at the world-famous CSUN heard of it, several of us
have bought it.  It is a nifty little machine, running (I believe) at 10
MHz, and with the FPU & CPU, it gets pretty good speed (our flyer we posted
to get people to come to our meeting says, 'The power of a Vax for the price
of a Mac.'  Considering that you get a pretty full port of Unix SysVr2 (only
thing I noticed missing was ?roff), including documentation, it is a very
good buy (no sources in the standard price, unfortunately).
If my great description has prompted anybody to look into it, also consider
that, for another 3 or 4 hundred dollars, you can get a total of 4 megs of
memory for it.  Really useful.  Also, no disk drives, power supplies,
terminals, or cases are provided with the system from National, so you have
to buy your own (we estimated that the rough price for an ICM3216 system,
with at least 40M disk, case, power supply, and semi-decent terminal would
run at about 3000, still better than an AT..).
National is also advertising the ICM32332, but it the equivilent of the
above system, with 1 meg of ram, costs something like 3k+.  Hopefully the
price will come down (hint, hint!).
 
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