On 01/24/2017 06:13 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > The 432 chips were sampling in early 1981, and in limited production > in mid-to-late 1981. (They were never in more than limited > production.) They weren't $1000 even then. Your salesman was either > including the cost of a lot of other components he thought you'd > need, or was off his meds, or something.
It could have been 1981--I'm a little fuzzy about dates back then. It could be that Bill Davidow thought that the 432 was a lost cause and wanted to discourage us--after all he was on our BOD. But I do recall the $1K chipset number and how that elicited a gasp. --Chuck
