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Last Time Buy Notice – Board Products
November 7, 2003
Effective immediately, DATEL, Inc. will be phasing out its line of board-level data acquisition
products. We will accept last time buy orders until February 28, 2004. Final shipments must
be accepted by June 31, 2004. In addition, all repairs and technical support must be concluded
by September 30, 2004. Please contact DATEL Sales as soon as practical to schedule your
order.
If this Notice is received by Purchasing, Materiel or Procurement personnel, we strongly
encourage you to forward this to your Engineering, Administrative and Program colleagues as
soon as practical.
Models to be Discontinued - Essentially all DATEL board-level data acquisition products, all
board-level accessories and all board software are covered in this Notice. This includes:
All ST-xxx model numbers (Multibus I boards, example ST-711)
All PC-xxx model numbers (ISA bus boards, example PC-414)
All DVME-xxx model numbers (VME bus boards, example DVME-628)
All CPCI-xxx model numbers (Compact PCI bus boards, example CPCI-511)
All PCI-xxx model numbers (PCI bus boards, example PCI-416)
Please note that many older ST-xxx, DVME-xxx and PC-xxx boards are already on very
limited availability due to component obsolescence and other manufacturing issues.
Last Time Orders - Customers should contact the DATEL Sales Dept. (Mansfield, MA, USA)
directly to place orders and negotiate delivery schedules. Some products may require minimum
order quantities and/or extended delivery. This varies over time so it is difficult to give an exact
list of such products.
To assure supply, we encourage customers to accept deliveries as soon as practical. As
time passes, customers risk non-availability of an increasing number of products. After the
customer accepts final order acknowledgement, all orders placed will be firm and non-
cancellable.
Warranty - DATEL’s standard warranty terms apply except the warranty period. As the date
of last shipments approach, warranty support and repairs will terminate on September 30,
2004. Customers must immediately perform a functional inspection on any shipments near this
date. DATEL will have no technical or repair facilities after this date.
Technical Support - Since some DATEL engineering resources have already been reallocated,
support and repairs are currently limited and more will be withdrawn over time. We encourage
users to get all support issues settled as soon as practical.
Replacement Products - DATEL is not aware of any competitive manufactured products which
are exact replacements for these products. However, there are numerous items with similar
functions. These will require re-integration with your application.
Manufacturing Rights - DATEL is not offering manufacturing rights on these products. The
difficulty here is the complexity of technical support to fully transfer all comprehensive details of
manufacturing (including test fixturing, component specifications and device programming). Most
of these products would require considerable re-engineering by the user to resume production
outside DATEL. Nor will we retain spare parts after September 30, 2004. Volume users
should contact DATEL to discuss their needs.
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As very large volume component users ourselves who are subject to frequent component
obsolescence issues, DATEL sincerely regrets any inconvenience this Notice may cause our
customers.
11 Cabot Blvd, Mansfield, MA, 02048 USA, website: www.datel.com
Phone: 508-339-3000 FAX: 508-339-6356 E-mail: [email protected]
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