NEC Corp, with its NEC Home Electronics subsidiary, announced the release of the NEC personal computer Server (SV-H98 Model 30), the first in a series of servers for the PC-9800 series: the servers are designed to work in a network of NEC PC-9800s, running local net software such as Japanese MS OS/2 LAN Manager, NetWare 386 and Japanese Open Desktop; the hardware features include 32-bit base NESA bus, capacity for three hard disks, conceivably up to 1.2Gb, disk mirroring and disk duplex functions, and 33MHz 80486 CPU; prices range from the equivalent of $17,000 for the 300Mb hard disk model, to $27,000 for the 1.2Gb model; NEC expects to sell 4,000 units in the next year; at the same time, the company released two new 80486-based models of the PC-9800 series – the 16MHz 80486-based Model 80 and the 25MHz 80486-based Model 90; the new U80-040W and U90-0404W will ship this month with Japanese MS-DOS V.5.0 and Japanese MS-Windows V.3.0A; NEC expects to ship 60,000 of the personal computers in the next year.
