Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!ucbvax!v1.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk!DECNET From: DECNET@v1.ph.rhbnc.ac.uk Newsgroups: comp.sys.transputer Subject: Caplin Message-ID: <20203018_000637B4.0091CB94F4DD7E80$3_1@UK.AC.RHBNC.PH.V1> Date: 2 Dec 88 08:27:06 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 17 I am considering buying Caplin boards for a MicroVAX host. Does anybody have experience of such boards or dealings with Caplin? The first offer of an "Educational Discount" from them is miserly; does anybody have better experience or believe that they can be beaten down? In a mail dated 7 Sep 1988 Patrick Van Renterghem claimed that Q-bus transputer platforms were also produced by FPS and U-Micro. On recently centacting FPS I was told that work on development of such a product has ceased and that the Patrick's contact, Bruce Jones has now left the company. U-Micro deny all knowledge of anything other than PC-based systems. Does this mean that Caplin has no competitors for Q-bus systems? Mike Green