Building clones of Sun Microsystems Inc’s Sparcstations has proved anything but a quick route to riches, and San Jose-based Tatung Science & Technology Inc is taking drastic measures to get its family of Sparc Compstations moving. It now charges $5,290 for a 20MHz 8Mb diskless model; $5,990 with 19 colour monitor and 207Mb hard disk, and $6,990 for the same configuration with a 25MHz processor. The hard disk models include X.desktop from IXI Ltd and either Motif or Open Look user interface. X-cellerator boards are also offered at a special promotional prices. The new prices will last at least until year-end, when they are more likely to have to be cut again than they are to go up to the previous level.
