The
3Station was a diskless
workstation, developed by
Bob Metcalfe[?] at
3Com and first available in
1986. The 3Station/2E had a 10
MHz 80286 processor, 1
megabyte of
RAM (expandable to 5MB),
VGA-compatible graphics with 256kB of video RAM, and integrated
AUI[?]/
BNC network transceivers for
LAN access. The product used a single printed-circuit board with four custom
ASICs. It had no
floppy disk drive[?] or
hard disk; it was booted from a server and stored all end-user files there.
3Com advertised "significant cost savings" due to the 3Station's ease of installation and low maintenance (this would now be referred to under the banner of Total Cost of Ownership[?]).
The 3Station cost somewhere between an IBM PC clone[?] and an IBM PC of the day. It was not commercially successful.
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