Innovative SPARCstation Voyager from Sun now costs less, has more storage.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 21, 1995--Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC SMCC - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. ) today introduced two additions to its pioneering SPARCstation Voyager family of portable workstations -- offering three times the base memory and more than twice the hard disk of previous configurations at a lower cost. Industry reductions in the cost of flat panel displays and SMCC's volume business model have combined to decrease the cost of existing SPARCstation Voyager workstation configurations by up to 30 percent. The new SPARCstation Voyager features 48 megabytes of RAM and an 810-megabyte hard disk to address customer requests for a more powerful portable computer. To satisfy customer demand for a lower-cost entry-level SPARCstation Voyager workstation, prices for standard configurations (16 megabytes memory and a 340-megabyte hard disk) have been reduced by $3,000, to $6,995 for monochrome models; and by $4,000, to $10,995 for systems with color Active-Matrix LCD (AMLCD (Active Matrix LCD) See active matrix. ) flat panel display. SMCC created a new system category in March 1994, with the launch of the industry's first portable workstation. The SPARCstation Voyager has first-of-its-kind features such as an extremely small footprint (65 percent smaller than the traditional SPARCstation). Industry-leading flat panel displays, reduced size and weight (13 lbs.), and high energy efficiency. A range of customers have embraced the system. TRW TRW The Real World (TV reality show) TRW The Right Way TRW Tactical Reconnaissance Wing TRW The Retriever Weekly (University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD) TRW Thompson Ramo Wooldridge Inc is using the SPARCstation Voyager to run the software it developed for the U.S. military to model military force movements. "SPARCstation Voyager offers us capabilities that were previously only available on large, immobile computers and has allowed us to put terrain, weather and related information into the hands of military operators at their sites," said Mike Wilkes, a TRW program manager. "Because it is portable, we have been able to take the SPARCstation Voyager on military operations around the world." Oracle Corp. has selected the SPARCstation Voyager as its standard portable demonstration platform for Oracle applications. "The SPARCstation Voyager has satisfied our demand for a portable system powerful enough to demonstrate our application software to customers," said Jonathon T. Brooks, Oracle Corporation's Director of Technology, Applications Division. Price, Availability The SPARCstation Voyager now comes in two standard configurations: 16 megabytes of RAM with a 340-megabyte hard disk; and 48 megabytes of RAM with an 810-megabyte hard disk. The two configurations are available with a choice of three displays -- 14-inch monochrome AMLCD, 12-inch color AMLCD and 17-inch color CRT (1) (C RunTime) See runtime library. (2) (Cathode Ray Tube) A vacuum tube used as a display screen in a computer monitor or TV. The viewing end of the tube is coated with phosphors, which emit light when struck by electrons. . Prices for the entry-level configurations have been reduced to $6,995 for the monochrome AMLCD flat panel display configuration, and to $10,995 for color AMLCD flat panel display configurations. The new high-performance systems start at $9,995 for the monochrome AMLCD flat panel display and $13,995 for color AMLCD flat panel display. SMCC also announced that U.S. and international versions of PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. fax modems with fax software are now available for use with the SPARCstation Voyager. The PCMCIA Modem was built for Sun by U.S. Robotics and includes bundled fax software developed by Faximum. All SPARCstation Voyager workstations come with a 60 MHz microSPARC-II CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. , 16-bit stereo audio, twisted-pair Ethernet, ISDN ISDN in full Integrated Services Digital Network Digital telecommunications network that operates over standard copper telephone wires or other media. , SCSI-2, parallel and serial ports, PCMCIA slots and an infrared interface. In addition to the standard Ethernet connection, the SPARCstation Voyager supports remotely networked client-server operation via the optional PCMCIA modem or standard ISDN connection. Sun Microsystems Computer Company (SMCC), the world's top supplier of open network computing See ONC. Open Network Computing - (ONC) Sun's network protocols. solutions, is part of Sun Microsystems, Inc. Built on Sun's legacy of "The Network is the Computer," SMCC's SPARC/Solaris workstation and server family leads the UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). market. The company has its headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. -0- Note to Editors: Sun, the Sun logo, Sun Microsystems, Solaris, SPARCstation Voyager and The Network is the Computer are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sun Microsystems, Inc. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks, including the SCD ScD [L.] Scien´tiae Doc´tor (Doctor of Science). 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