On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 10:51 AM, Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
On Apr 5, 2010, at 1:43 52PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
Steve is talking mid-80s pricing, not mid-90s. By '93 or so, the fact that Ethernet was becoming ubiquitous had already forced the price down.
Yup. 10 years earlier, a 3Com Ethernet card for a Vax cost about $1500, if memory serves.
$1500 is what I remember also (forget if that was the Interlan NI1010 or the DEUNA / DELUA), plus of course the cost of whatever Unibus you're burning the bandwidth on. Serial was cheaper, but most of the competition wasn't. I assume Datakit boards had a regular list price for customers other than intra-Bell? -- ---- Thanks; Bill Note that this isn't my regular email account - It's still experimental so far. And Google probably logs and indexes everything you send it.