T8500                       desktop 386
Toshiba Enters Retail Desktop Business
 
Microbytes Daily News Service
Copyright (c) 1989, McGraw-Hill, Inc.
With the introduction of the T8500, Toshiba officially enters the
desktop business from a retail (rather than an OEM) standpoint.
 
The T8500, which will be available in December, is a 25-MHz,
22-pound 16- by 16- by 4-inch 80386 system that includes 64K
bytes of 40-nanosecond static RAM cache, 2 megabytes of RAM
expandable to 14 megabytes, a 1.44-megabyte 3.5-inch floppy-disk
drive, a 100-megabyte hard-disk drive, and both VGA and SCSI
drivers on the motherboard. Also standard equipment is MS-DOS
4.01, Multisoft's PC-Kwik Power Pak, Quarterdeck's Expanded
Memory Manager-386, and a coprocessor socket for an 80387 or a
3167.
 
Within the small-footprint chassis, there's room for three
full-length and one half-length boards that are accessable from
the side cover, rather than the back cover.
 
Options include 13- and 14-inch Toshiba Monitors, a second
internal 100-megabyte hard-disk drive, an external 5.25-inch
360K-byte floppy-disk drive, OS/2, Toshiba's Unix, Xenix, and
Interactive System's 386/ix.
 
Price: $7799.
 
Contact: Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., Computer
Systems Division, 9740 Irvine Blvd., Irvine, CA 92718,
(714) 583-3000.
 
                              --- Roger K. Adams
 
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