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- From: richard@pegasus.com (Richard Foulk)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.xenix,comp.unix.sys5.r4
- Subject: Re: AST 4-Port for Sale
- Message-ID: <1992Nov6.070345.13092@pegasus.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 07:03:45 GMT
- References: <1992Oct31.002310.23585@pegasus.com> <1992Nov2.185626.17743@gcm.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
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- >: >For sale:
- >: >
- >: >1 AST 4-Port Serial board fully populated w/ NS16550-AN UARTS. $200
- >: > (This card supports shared interrupts)
- >: >
- >:
- >: That's pretty pricey for a $99 board with four $7 chips added.
- > ^^^
- >
- >Apparently, some people thought it was a bargain. Please let us know where
- >you can get the AST boards for $99. Do you know how much AST sells them for?
- >The last time I called them, (I admit almost a year ago) the boards listed
- >for $400. To get them for $99 means that AST is offereing them to their
- >resellers at more than 75% margin!
- >
- >I think you are referring to clone boards. Yes?
-
- Nope. Though there are apparently some good clones available now too,
- we bought ours from AST (a year or two ago) for $99. This was a brand
- new, sealed package with manuals, heavy duty cables, etc.
-
- I know lots of others that have purchased them at that price.
-
- Has the price really quadrupled? That's close to what a smart 8-port
- board goes for.
-
- --
- Richard Foulk richard@pegasus.com
-