Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!hao!noao!arizona!naucse!sbw From: sbw@naucse.UUCP (Steve Wampler) Newsgroups: comp.sys.att Subject: Re: Opening the 3B1 Message-ID: <519@naucse.UUCP> Date: 9 Dec 87 14:50:05 GMT References: <7517@alice.UUCP> Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona Lines: 22 Summary: FPU for 3B1 - it ain't cheap! In article <7517@alice.UUCP>, wilber@alice.UUCP writes: > Also, I'd like to know if you really can add a 68881 FPU. (I didn't think > you could, but it looks like I was wrong, since AT&T seems to be selling > 68881's for the 3B1.) > > Bob Wilber wilber@research.att.com I tried to track the "Math CoProcessor" found in the 3B1 parts list about 6 months ago. After about a dozen phone calls (with 2 cycles) I found someone who gave me the list price: $2520.00. Sigh. If they were correct, that's simply too much for poor folks like me to put into a system selling for less than that! I wonder if CT markets an FPU? I'd love to have one, but heck, I can do without one at that price. As an aside, NO one else had heard of the Math Coprocessor, so that price may be for a FPU for the 3B2 line, and the MC68881 Math Coprocessor in the parts list might just be vaporware. Speaking of dreams - I just read that ATT was working on building a version of its VISTA board for MAC's (rumor?). Since that's also a 68000-line, I wonder if ATT would consider spinning a few boards off for their own 3B1's? I must be sleeping, 'cuz I sure am dreaming.