In what it is heralding as the first of a generation of workstation products, STC Plc’s ICL yesterday launched a new entry-level intelligent workstation. Called the DRS Model 30, the Intel 8086-based system runs MS-DOS 3.3 and features fixed disks, 3.5 floppies and VGA graphics. The company, which predicts a 10,000 – machines – within […]
In what it is heralding as the first of a generation of workstation products, STC Plc’s ICL yesterday launched a new entry-level intelligent workstation. Called the DRS Model 30, the Intel 8086-based system runs MS-DOS 3.3 and features fixed disks, 3.5 floppies and VGA graphics. The company, which predicts a 10,000 – machines – within – a – year take-up by its departmental and business users in the UK alone, envisages four main areas of application: the running of individual spreadsheet and word processing-type packages, and the provision of access to either departmental systems and databases, centralised, corporate application systems – either the proprietary Series 39 mainframes or IBM via SNA -, or external, third party information services and databases such as Telerate. The system can also be plugged into a DRS 300 Microlan network, or used as a stand-alone product. For the competitive starting price of UKP990, users get 640Kb of memory, two 720Kb floppies and a monochrome monitor, while UKP1,590 buys a fixed disk system comprising one 20Mb disk and a colour monitor – both variants are available immed-iately.
