Custom Product Design Inc subsidiary Uninet Peripherals, based in Santa Ana, California, has announced Slat-1 – SCSI Local Area Network Technology – for connecting non-expandable workstation like Sun Microsystems Inc’s SLC to peripheral devices such as printers, terminals and modems via the workstation’s SCSI port. It is available for Sun Microsystems, DEC, Solbourne and Data General workstations and comes in three configurations – one parllel port, one parallel and four serial ports, or one parallel and eight serial ports. Prices are $575, $900 and $1,595 respectively – site licences are $100 per processor type and cabling costs $85 per device. Communications company Morning Star Technologies, Columbus, Ohio, has already signed to resell a synchronous, wide area network version of the Slat-1 – it costs around $4,000.
