Digital Equipment Corp has announced a family of local area network hubs targetted at small workgroups working on small budgets and without technical expertise. The products are for the Ethernet market and are DEChub 90, a backplane hub, DECserver 90L, an eight-line terminal supporting DEC’s LAT protocol, DECbridge 90, and DECrepeaters 90C and 90T, which support coaxial and 10BaseT cabling. The products are modular and DEC is emphasising their small size. Each family module server, bridge and repeater is about the same size as a VHS video cassette. Each product can be clipped on to the hub or used stand-alone and they automatically configures itself to operate on the network. The products are priced at ?800 for the DEChub, ?1,200 for the DECserver 90L, ?2,600 for the DECbridge 90 and ?1,450 for both the DECrepeater 90C and the 90T.
