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From: haddock@ti-csl.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ICM 3216
Message-ID: <17657@ti-csl.CSNET>
Date: Wed, 25-Mar-87 17:12:03 EST
Article-I.D.: ti-csl.17657
Posted: Wed Mar 25 17:12:03 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 28-Mar-87 01:56:15 EST
References: <1775@a.cs.okstate.edu>
Reply-To: haddock@tilde.UUCP (Rusty Haddock)
Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas
Lines: 60
Keywords: ICM SysV NSC BSD
Summary: Yes, it does exist and now BSD is available for it

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
>
>...
>
>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?
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^   --- Sounds like bull____ to me.
>

Several (6) of us in the Dallas/Fort Worth Unix Users Group purchased
boards through the University/User-Group program.  We put the critters
in a modified AT-clone enclosure, with power supply, and 80-Meg disk,
and cartridge tape drive for a mere US$3400.  The disk and tape drive
had their own embedded SCSI controllers.  It works fairly well and
mine is on the "net".  If you wanna buy one I suggest spending an
additional $370 to get a 4-Meg board (swap mem board's 64K chips with
the 256K variety).  One meg of memory ain't much if you're gonna run
Unix.  Mail me for more details and questions.  The list on the board
set was something around $3.4K (CPU, 4-Meg boards and *NO* SysV s/w)
although I have no idea what it's going for at this time.

Also, if you read mod.newprod(s) about a month of two ago you would
have seen the announcement by the folks at the University of Toronto
for their BSD 4.2 port.  I just installed this critter over the
weekend and appears to be running just fine.  That SysV was driving me
bananas plus there's bugs in the virtual memory that N/S is claiming
to be AT&T bugs.

Unfortunately the ICM-332 which is being advertised in the "industry"
rags is not currently on the University/User-Group plan.

>	ANYONE AT NATIONAL READING THIS?????  PLEASE RESPOND!!!!
>
>Please post all info to this group (or the great net controllers may take
>this group away from us :-)
>
Yes, I read it when there's something in here.   How 'bout you ICM or
SYS32 folks out there?   What's happening?  Let's here from you!!!!

The systems we put together we strickly for personal (ab)use. Texas
Instruments Inc.  had nothing to do with it or this posting
whatsoever.

					-Rusty-

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