Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site redwood.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!godot!harvard!seismo!hao!hplabs!hpda!fortune!redwood!rpw3 From: rpw3@redwood.UUCP (Rob Warnock) Newsgroups: net.rumor,net.lan Subject: Re: What is happening with Interlan? Message-ID: <157@redwood.UUCP> Date: Mon, 11-Feb-85 18:53:13 EST Article-I.D.: redwood.157 Posted: Mon Feb 11 18:53:13 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Feb-85 02:20:48 EST References: <372@harvard.ARPA> Distribution: net Organization: [Consultant], Foster City, CA Lines: 27 Xref: watmath net.rumor:644 net.lan:664 +--------------- | A staff member called Interlan using a phone number from previously received | literature. The phone rang, but no one answered. This number was tried several | times over several days, same result... Directory assistance replied that the | "number is being with held by customer request". | Does anyone know what is happening with Interlan? | Marty Sasaki | Havard University Science Center | sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp} +--------------- I don't know if the following is relevant, but it's interesting anyway... Electronic News, January 14, 1985, page 8: >> Micom to Acquire Interlan for $47M << CHATSWORTH, Calif. -- Micom Systems last week said it has agreed in principle to acquire Interlan, Westford, Mass., in a stock transaction estimated to be worth $47 million... March 1 target date... Micom Systems... makes data PBXs, multiplexers, modems, and LAN products... [Micom] and Interlan had sales of approx. $170M and $18M respectively in 1984. Rob Warnock Systems Architecture Consultant UUCP: {ihnp4,ucbvax!dual}!fortune!redwood!rpw3 DDD: (415)572-2607 USPS: 510 Trinidad Lane, Foster City, CA 94404