 This required all product-pricing to be negotiated directly with the DoD, so margins eroded somewhat.Some 32-bit machines (versus 16-bit) were developed into the Hawk/32 computer and sold well.Engineering in the latter years scrambled to come up with a new product line as the military was enticed into ruggedized commercial computer systems by Rugged Digital, and Rolm worked on a militarized version of Mercury Computer's Digital Signal Processor.