Rikei Corp, which buys its hardware OEM from Nippon Digital Equipment Corp, is to sell the DEC MicroVAX 3500 and 3600, and looks to place 200 of the machines in the first year: this will be in addition to sales target of 160 machines from the existing DEC range – it takes everything from the MicroVAX II to the VAX 8800; it is thrilled that the new machines offer three times the processing speed and twice the memory capacity of MicroVAX II, and plans to offer them for applications such as computer-aided engineering, and for exercises in graphics and image processing.
