> the evaluation boards could be bought direct, so it was no secret what the markup
> for slapping a boing sticker on those boards was.

Eyetech didn't buy the boards from MAI (except maybe in the case of the 300 Micro-A1 boards, IIRC) but paid for their own production runs at FIC. So you cannot conclude Eyetech's pre-markup costs from MAI's price.