---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBus Developer List SunFLASH Vol 19 #11 July 1990 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The current list of SBus developers has grown to 76 products or services from 46 vendors. 14 new additions have been made since the last time the list was published. Enclosed, please find the most recent update as of July 10, 1990. Highlights of products added since the last update: Megatek 3D Graphics Accelerator Brixton Systems 3270, SNA, 32xx communications card Haft Technology Digital I/O card Helios (US) Net Modem 8 port serial expander Xecom Fax Card Data Modem Themis Computer X.25 Controller Baydel 8 port serial expander 24 port serial expander Versatec Interface to 8510 CADmate plotter Graceline Design PCB design services Highgate Design Xilinx (LCA) design services PAC Technology Hardware and software SBus consulting A list of known SBus products available (or soon to be) from third party vendors is attached. This listing does not represent all SBus projects under development. It includes only those vendors who have authorized Sun to make their projects known. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- ^L Third Party SBus Add-on options: Products are listed by the following application areas: I. Parallel/Serial/IO II. Bus Adapters III. Graphics/Display IV. IEEE 488 Interfaces (GPIB) V. Coprocessors VI. Scanner/Printer Interfaces VII. LAN/WAN/Networking VIII. Disk Con805itrollers IX. Modems/Facsimile X. Industrial I/O (A-D, digital I/O) XI. Memory XII. Developer Enabling Products (prototype boards, test boards, interface chips) XIII. MiL-STD Interface XIV. DSP Systems XV. Voice/Speech XVI. DR-11W Interface XVII. Consulting Services Sun Microsystems makes no recommendation as to the suitability of a product from a particular vendor for a given application. Sun Microsystems has not qualified or reviewed any claims made about product features or functions, and is not responsible for their accuracy. No vendor is authorized to act as an agent of Sun Microsystems or to commit Sun in any way concerning Sun's products and their functionality, availability, or price. I. Parallel/Serial/IO ---------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ---------------- Agile Systems 2100SP, 2 serial, 1 parallel $395 August 90 Bob May (608)274-6880 4000SS, 4 serial ports $395 August 90 Fax:(608)274-6867 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Antares Microsystems Parallel Port $295 now Alex Chan 415-965-4326 8 channel serial controller $945 July 90 Fax:(415)964-2027 Cable management box option $150 now Email antares@cup.portal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aurora Technologies 210S 2 Serial, 1 parallel $595 now Dennis Daudelin 617-577-1288 Fax:(617)621-0265 4 serial ports $795 July 90 8 serial ports $1495 now Email:auratek!daudelin@uunet.UU.NET 10S 1 Parallel port $395 now ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Baydel Ltd. SMLB8 8 serial ports $1350 now (pounds) Tony Bedingfield 1 parallel port (Surrey England) Tel: 011 44 372 378811 SMLB16 16 serial ports $1665 now (pounds) FAX: 011 44 372 386960 1 parallel port SMPB24 24 serial ports $2645 now (pounds) 2 parallel ports SMPB32 32 serial ports $3395 now (pounds) 2 parallel ports ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Berkeley Camera Eng. SBusDSP-56X 27 Bits Parallel August 90 Mike Peck 2 serial controller (415)886-4609 Fax:(415)643-7629 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CoSYSTEMS CoALM-S4 4 Serial ports $295 now Peter Behan with full modem (408)734-2208 Added expansion with CoALM-S4E Fax:(408)734-2493 CoALM-S8 8 serial ports $995 now with full modem Email:amd@cosys@support CoALM-S8P 8 serial ports with $1095 August 90 full modem, 1 Centronics port CoPIO-S 1 Bidirectional $495 August 90 Centronics port ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danford Corp SPPE-6500, 4 serial ports $1595 now Jay Healey and 1 Parallel port 213-514-9334 SEU-6900, 8 serial ports $1695 August 90 Fax 213-831-0454 HPPP-6100 1 Parallel port August 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helios Systems High performance 8 port serial, October 90 (408)432-0292 1 port parallel Fax:(408)943-1309 Gordon Meyer e-mail helios-mktg@cup.portal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GNP Computers DE-1 8 port serial, 1 port parallel $1500 July 90 Ken Kalb in external chassis 75-38.4 Kbaud per port (818)577-4252 Fax:(818)577-4263 8+1 card 8 additional serial $500 July 90 ports, 1 parallel port ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mars Microsystems 8 serial ports $875 now 412-934-1040 1 parallel port Brian Rosen Fax:(412)934-1060 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sigma Information SCC-SBM8, 8 Port Async Serial $945 May 90 Dick Bravo card (40-50 Kbytes/sec total 714-632-0474 aggregate throughput) Fax:(714)630-5417 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Solarix Systems APP1 High performance $395 now (formally Able Tech.) Centronics interface (415)659-1544 Fax:(415)226-0781 Pam Slone ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microsystems SSC-80, 8 port serial mux $995 now 713-933-8050 Fax:(713)933-1029 SPC-60, Parallel Port $495 now Mike Bosworth ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- II. Bus Adapters ----------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- AMAX SBus-SBus Expansion August 90 (818)-300-8828 Up to 6 slots and Fax:(818)282-9992 SCSI expansion Johnathan Kong ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bit 3 Computer Model 466 SBus-A32/B32 VME adapter $1995 now SBus card + 6U VME card Merle Lonnon Model 464 SBus-Multibus adaptor $1580 now SBus card + Multibus card (612)881-6955 Fax:(612)881-9674 Model 465 SBus-Qbus adaptor $2695 July 90 SBus card plus quad Qbus card ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Performance SBus-VME adapter September 90 Technologies Single slot SBus card Contact vendor 716-586-6727 80 pin shielded cable for pricing Fax:(716)586-6707 connected to 6u VME card Don Turrell ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- III. Graphics/Display ---------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- AMAX Color or Mono Graphics Frame Buffer July 90 (818)-300-8828 1280 X 1024; 8 bit color + 2 Fax:(818)282-9992 1152 X 900; 8 bit color + 2 Johnathan Kong 1024 X 768; 8 bit color + 2 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Megatek Sigma 30 3D graphics $9000 September 90 Tel: (619)455-5590 accelerator, 300k 2D vectors/ including software Fax: (619)453-7603 sec., 200k 3D vectors/sec. Bill Hodge 20k shaded ploygons/sec. E-Mail: uunet!megatek!hodge ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- RasterOps 24 bit Color Frame $4995; now 408-562-4200 buffer; video-in option Fax:(408)562-4065 also available Patrick Sweeney TC-PIP Live full motion video $6995 May 90 in a window (includes 24 bit frame buffer) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IV. IEEE 488 Interfaces ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------- ----------------- IOtech SB488 SBus-IEEE488 $995 now Dan Lucarini controller 216-439-4091 Fax:(216)439-4093 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- National Instruments GPIB (IEEE-488) $995 August 90 (512) 794-0100 interface Fax:(512)794-5569 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- V. Coprocessors ---------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ CSP Inc. Supercard i860 vector processor Contact Vendor Geoff Cohler with 80 MFLOPS performance (617)272-6020 and 16 MB RAM Fax:(508)663-0150 Email:{apollo,ascway,decvax}!cspi!geof ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Meiko Scientific SBus Computing Surface $5950; now North America: interface for connectivity Brad Bradley to Intel i860, Inmos T800, 617-890-7676 graphic output, and image UK and Europe: and signal processing systems David Barr using parallel processing 44(0)454 616171 and I/O ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Puzzle Systems SYNERGY: 386 DOS coprocessor $1995 July 90 Jim Leslie single width SBus, VGA 408-779-9909 support; MS Windows 3.0 FAX 408-778-1346 support; performance at ~16Mhz 386sx ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sky Computer SBus i860 co-processor Contact vendor (508) 250-1920 Fax:(508)250-0036 Cimarron Boozer ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VI. Scanner/Printer Interfaces ------------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Microtek Labs SBus scanner interface Contact vendor (213)321-2121 Fax:(213)538-1193 Rosemary Albin --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microststems Differential Versatec interface $795 June 90 Mike Bosworth (800)627-8700 Fax:(713)933-1029 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Versatec Interface to Versatec 8510 August 90 (408)988-2800 CADmate plotter Fax:(408)970-0287 Lily Lee Louie --------------------------------------------------------------------------- VII. LAN/WAN/Networking ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems 2nd Ethernet Controller $395 August 90 Alex Chan 415-965-4326 Fax:(415)964-2027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brixton Systems 3270, LU0, SNA IP gateway, October 90 Herbert Rush 37xx termainal and printer (617)497-2938 support, SunNet Mgr. support FAX:(617)876-2523 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helios- W. Germany AppleTalk interface $1700 now Jens-Uwe Mager Phone: +49 511 3681093 FAX: +49 511 3681095 uucp: jum@helios.de or unido!heliosd!jum ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Information Appletalk interface card $595 July 90 Presentation Tech.(IPT) IPT-230/A Olivia Fauela (818)347-7791 Fax:(818)992-5580 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Legato Systems Inc. Network accelerator Contact vendor (415) 329-7880 (accelerates NFS writes) Fax:(415)329-8898 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Themis Computer TCSBUS X.25 X.25 Contoller September 90 (415)734-0870 T1/CEPT Data rates, on board Fax:(415)734-0873 processor, SUNOS compatable Contact vendor Bill Kehret for pricing ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- VIII. Disk Controllers ----------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems 2nd SCSI Controller $495 now Alex Chan 415-965-4326 Fax:(415)964-2027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IX. Modems/Facsimile --------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Antares Microsystems Fax Modem Contact vendor Alex Chan 415-965-4326 Fax:(415)964-2027 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Helios Systems X-tend Netmodem/Fax board November 90 (408)432-0292 H/W and S/W solution for Fax:(408)943-1309 voice, data and fax Gordon Meyer e-mail helios-mktg@cup.portal.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- JTS Computer Systems Data Compression/Decompression August 90 Joe Strul using CCITT group 3 & Group 4 (416)665-8910 Fax:(416)665-8258 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Xecom NewPort SB Fax/Data (9.6 Kbaud August 90 408-945-6640 Fax, 2.4 Kbaud data modem) Contact vendor Fax:(408)942-1346 for pricing Allen Gregory NewPort SB 2400MNP5 2400 baud October 90 data modem NewPort SB 9600 Fax Group 3 October 90 send/recieve Fax modem ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- X. Industrial I/O ------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Haft Technology High speed digital I/O DIO $650 011 81 298 644848 Software driver $320 FAX: same as above October 90 Mr. Imura (Japan) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Microsystems A to D converter July 90 (800)627-8700 Fax:(713)933-1029 SDC-90 Digital I/O Card $495 July 90 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XI. Memory ----------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Texas Memory Systems 2 GB shared access RAM memory August 90 (713)771-8200 Fax:(713)771-8187 Dan Blair ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XII. Enabling Products, Services --------------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Dawn VME DPS-1, Prototype Board with $995 now Fred Hirsch LSI DMA Controller 415-657-4444 Fax:(415)657-3274 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LSI Logic L64853 SBus DMA Controller $49; 10 days ARO 408-433-7256 Sue Carlson ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sigma Information SSB-SB96, Buffered extender $495 now Dick Bravo card; typically used for 714-632-0474 product development, testing, Fax:(714)632-5417 factory repair of SBus cards. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XIII. MiL-STD Interface ----------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Engineering Design SBus 1553 Interface Board $7900 July 90 Team (Military interface std) (503) 690-1234 David Lowry Fax:(503)690-1243 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XIV. DSP Systems ---------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Ariel S-56 DSP Co-Processor $1495 September 90 Les Listwa (Motorola 56001) (201)249-2900 Fax:(201)249-2123 S-56X DSP 56001 with custom $1995 September 90 serial & parallel I/O (NeXT compatable DSP Port) Email ama@master.ariel.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XV. Voice/Speech Systems ------------------------ Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Command Corp. Voice Recognition System Contact Vendor Bob Adams (404)925-7950 Fax:(404)925-7924 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XVI. DR-11W Interface --------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ------------------ Engineering Design DR-11W Interface $1500 now Team Dave Lowry (503)690-1234 Fax:(503)690-1243 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IKON DR-11W Interface Contact Vendor Bill Waddington (206)728-6465 Fax:(206)728-1633 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- XVII. Consulting Services -------------------------- Vendor Name Product Description Price/Availability ----------- ------------------ ----------------- Graceline Design Inc. PCB design service; high now custom quote Marsha Gilliland density SMD specialists (408)746-0707 Fax:(408)746-2704 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Highgate Design Xilinx digital design now custom quote Rocky Awalt (LCA) specialists (408)255-7160 Fax:(408)255-7162 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mesa Ridge SBus HW, SW, Firmware Available now; Technologies engineering custom quote Ed Romascan 619-457-0769 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAC Technology GmbH SBus Hardware/software now custom quote Andreas Jankowsky consulting/engineering Tel. 011 49 30 213-9200 FAX 011 49 30 213-9155 e-mail uucp: mcvax!unido!tub!janky@pac.uucp (Germany) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Sunflash is an electronic mail news service from Sun Microsystems, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. It is targeted at Sun Users and Customers. 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