Datamedia Corp, ICL’s Hauppauge, New York partner on lower-end Unix systems – ICL holds a 16% stake in the company – has introduced what it calls the the NETmate PC/Workstation family. The local area network PC/Workstation family members are based on a 20MHz 80386 processor, and initially come in two configurations – diskless and with disk – or diskfull as Datamedia puts it. They come in 15 by 15 desktop enclosures, and can come with several networking applications, including DEC’s PCSA, Novell’s NetWare, Sun Microsystems’s Network File System, 3Com’s 3-Series and IBM’s PC Network, as well as NetBIOS. NETcards are available for PCSA, NetWare and Network File System, and Datamedia is a Certified Reseller for Novell’s NetWare VMS for VAX systems. Availability is 30 days and list prices for the workstations range from $4,900 for the diskless 386/20-00 through $5,200 for the floppy disk 386/20-01 to $7,000 for the hard disk model 386/20-08.
