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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 neither a floppy disk drive nor a hard disk; it was booted from a server and stored all end-user files there. A computer workstation, often colloquially referred to as workstation, is a high-end general-purpose microcomputer designed to be used by one person at a time and which offers higher performance than normally found in a personal computer, especially with respect to graphics, processing power and the ability to carry... Robert Metcalfe (born 1946 in Brooklyn, New York) is an American technology pioneer who invented Ethernet, founded 3Com and formulated Metcalfes Law. ... 3Com (NASDAQ: COMS) is a manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products. ... 1986 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A megahertz (MHz) is one million (106) hertz, a measure of frequency. ... The Intel 80286 is an x86-family 16-bit microprocessor that was introduced by Intel on February 1, 1982. ... A CPU The exact term processor is a sub-system of a data processing system which processes received information after it has been encoded into data by the input sub-system. ... This article is about a unit of data measurement. ... Look up Random access memory in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Different types of RAM. From top to bottom: DIP, SIPP, SIMM 30 pin, SIMM 72 pin, DIMM, RIMM RAM redirects here. ... Video Graphics Array (VGA) is a computer display standard first marketed in 1987 by IBM. VGA belongs to a family of earlier IBM video standards and largely remains backward compatible with them. ... A kilobyte (derived from the SI prefix kilo-) is a unit of information or computer storage equal to one thousand bytes. ... An Attachment Unit Interface (AUI) is a transceiver cable that provides a path between a nodes Ethernet interface and the MAU. It is the part of the IEEE Ethernet standard located between the MAC, and the MAU. See also: Thicknet Categories: Stub | Ethernet ... BNC can refer to one of the following: A BNC connector, a type of cable jack. ... Lan can stand for several things: An administrative division of Sweden A local area network Lan Mandragoran, a fictional character in the Wheel of Time series. ... Close-up photo of one side of a motherboard PCB, showing conductive traces, vias and solder points for through-hole components on the opposite side. ... The acronym ASIC, depending on context, may stand for: application-specific integrated circuit ASIC programming language Australian Securities and Investments Commission This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... A floppy disk is a data storage device that comprises a circular piece of thin, flexible (hence floppy) magnetic storage medium encased in a square or rectangular plastic wallet. ... Typical hard drives of the mid-1990s. ...


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). Total cost of ownership (TCO) is a type of calculation designed to help consumers and enterprise managers assess direct and indirect costs as well as benefits related to the purchase of computer software or hardware. ...


The 3Station's cost lay somewhere between that of an IBM PC clone and an IBM PC of the day. It was not commercially successful. ... IBM PC (IBM 5150) with keyboard and green screen monochrome monitor (IBM 5151), running MS-DOS 5. ...

This article was originally based on material from the Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, which is licensed under the GFDL.

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The 3Station was a diskless workstation, developed by Bob Metcalfe at 3Com and first available in 1986.
When the 286 processor became redundant, the ATO opened a tender for replacement of the 3Station 2E with a suitable 386 based machine.
3Station 2 and 3s were manufactured under license in Sydney until the contract ended.
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