Got a mail today from Magma:

End of Life Announcement

MAGMA SBus Connectivity Products

DATE: July 26, 2004

FROM: MAGMA, Inc. Manufacturer of SBus Connectivity Products

SUBJECT: Product Obsolescence Plan for SBus Connectivity Products

NOTICE: MAGMA, Inc. is announcing the End-of-Life (EOL) of their entire
SBus connectivity product line:

* Last Time Buy Date: September 30, 2004
* End of Life Date: December 31, 2004
* All orders must ship by December 31, 2004

Boo! I have two of their 4 port SBus serial cards in two of my SPARCstation 2s at home and they’re very cool pieces of hardware. I haven’t used them under SunOS or Solaris, but NetBSD supports ‘em just fine.

Luckily I got mine free – I see they still sell them for a song ($435 according to their price list). HTF they can charge so much for SBus parts in this day and age, I don’t know… Sun’s last SBus machine was the Ultra2, which was last shipped in August 2000.