Data General Corp has extended its MV Eclipse minicomputer line further down with a new MV/1400 DC, which brings its entry-level price below $10,000. The company also announced enhancements to some office system and workstation products. In addition to its function as a low-cost 32-bit business automation system, the MV/1400 DC can also be configured […]
Data General Corp has extended its MV Eclipse minicomputer line further down with a new MV/1400 DC, which brings its entry-level price below $10,000. The company also announced enhancements to some office system and workstation products. In addition to its function as a low-cost 32-bit business automation system, the MV/1400 DC can also be configured to act as a low-end file server in a Data General Personal Computer*Integration – DG/PC*I – environment, as well as a protocol converter in a multi-vendor communications environment. The system’s CMOS gate array processor is rated at 958K single-precision Whetstones. A basic configuration costs $9,995, which buys 4Mb of memory, a floating point co-processor, a 30Mb hard disk, floppy disk drive, two RS-232 modem ports, eight selectable ports, and a parallel printer port. The high-end system package combines the same 4Mb of memory on the system board with a 160Mb Winchester disk and a 21Mb cartridge tape. Users can double main memory in two or four megabyte increments. The price includes one operating system from the various AOS or real-time options, or the DG/UX Unix implementation. The MV/1400 DC supports between four and eight users depending on the application, Data General says, but the company also sees the machine as a low-end file server and protocol converter, both for its own and multi-vendor environments. The company also enhanced its MV/2000 office system and its DS/7500 graphics workstation by increasing the base memory of the system boards from 2Mb to 4Mb, allowing a maximum of 12Mb of memory. All three of the new products use 1M-bitdynamics for the first time on Data General products. The base system price of the new MV/2000 DC with 4Mb of memory, a 38Mb hard disk, and a 737Kb floppy disk drive is $19,150. The DS/7500 monochrome systems start at $15,400, not including the monitor. For colour, the starting price is $23,000 with 4Mb of memory, 70Mb hard disk, floppy and monitor.
