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From: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Newsgroups: unix-pc.general,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: Want to buy 2 MB memory board for UNIX PC
Message-ID: <342@manta.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 88 23:23:18 GMT
References: <1027@woton.UUCP> <1030@woton.UUCP>
Reply-To: brant@manta.UUCP (Brant Cheikes)
Organization: Soul of the Gnu Machine, Philadelphia
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In article <1030@woton.UUCP> riddle@woton.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) writes:
>> We are looking to buy a new or used 2 Megabyte RAM expansion board for the
>> UNIX PC [...]
>A company called Piiceon makes its own 2-Mb memory board for the UNIX
>PC.

I have a little more information on this topic to share.  I spoke with
the Piiceon (sp?) sales rep, and he told me the following:

1. The mem boards they currently supply are hard-wired to a low-end
address of 512Kb.  That is, the boards supply memory in the
addressable range 512K to 2Mb+512Kb.  Thus the boards aren't quite
right for machines such as mine, with 2Mb on the motherboard.
Translation: we'd have to let Craig Votava loose on them with his
soldering tools.

2. Piiceon is very soon (a few days?) starting a production run of
various models of mem board upgrades with different addressable memory
ranges, including those that start at 2Mb.

3. Piiceon has made an arrangement to sell all their boards to
Technology Resource Center (TRC).  Apparently, TRC bought out AT&T's
stock of UNIXpc's to sell on their own.  They want to be the sole
supplier of the mem upgrades manufactured by Piiceon.

4. I was assured that the upgrades would be "very competitively
priced" by TRC, whatever the heck that means.

5. The sales rep (Rod Gilchrist) asked me to have people direct their
inquiries to:

	Ellis Goldberg
	Technology Resource Center
	+1 213 934 9611 (Los Angeles)
	428 North Formosa Ave
	Los Angeles, CA 90036

Who knows, maybe these Piiceon/TRC folks may end up taking over for
the now-defunct (apparently) Amperfax.
-- 
Brant Cheikes
University of Pennsylvania
Department of Computer and Information Science
ARPA: brant@linc.cis.upenn.edu, UUCP: ...drexel!manta!brant