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From: grenley@nsc.nsc.com (George Grenley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.nsc.32k
Subject: Re: ICM-332 can't talk to Adaptec tape controller
Keywords: ICM-332
Message-ID: <7464@nsc.nsc.com>
Date: 1 Nov 88 19:34:28 GMT
References: <228@flinders.cs.flinders.oz> <1163@mmm.UUCP>
Reply-To: grenley@nsc.nsc.com.UUCP (George Grenley)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Sunnyvale
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The following may be of interest to ALL ICM users; there is now an upgrade
path of sorts for you....

In article <1163@mmm.UUCP> schultz@mmm.UUCP (John C Schultz) writes:
>In article <228@flinders.cs.flinders.oz> trevor@flinders.cs.flinders.oz (Trevor Norman) writes:
>>I can't get an ICM-332 system to talk to an Adaptec (3500?) SCSI tape
>>controller, which makes it a tad hard to boot...

>While I can't help with the original question, but what/how did you get 
>and ICM-332?  I had heard that Nat'l dropped the ICM line with a
>"thud".  Can I trade in my ICM-32016?  How much?

First of all, a disclaimer: I do not work for the ICM group; they are a totally
seperate organization, part of National's Systems Group (NAS + Datachecker)

To be precise, National stopped most new development work on the ICM product
family; it was not selling well.  National continues to manufacture and sell
ICM boards to the existing customer base.

There were some number of 332 based machines built; I have seen them.  But I 
don't believe a lot of them got out to customers.

So, what's a Series 32000 and/or Unix fan to do these days?  Easy.  Call
the Heurikon Corporation, in Madison, Wisconsin, at (608) 251-8715.  They
offer a family of 32532 based Unix platforms, in various degrees of dress (i.e.
board-only, full system, etc.)  They are a source licensed AT&T SysV shop,
so they can (and do) do their own software support, etc.  They have a lot
of nice hardware and software products.  So go on, call 'em.  Do it before
midnight tonight, so you don't forget.  8-)

Seriously, they are good products.  The HK32/V532 board is easily 4 times
faster than a 332 at 15 mhz, and 6-8 times faster than older 032 systems.
Disk I/O is much improved also.  This board is a true SBC; hook up a disk
and power and you've got a useful Unix box.

Heurikon also sells a VME532 board set; while it costs more, it features
a large cache and can support LOTS of DRAM if you need the speed.

So, call 'em.

George Grenley
NSC

Disclaimer:  I have no special relationship with Heurikon, other than that they
are an NSC customer (Obvious; where _else_ would they get 532s?).