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3Station

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The 3Station was the archetypal 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 5 MB), VGA-compatible graphics with 256 kilobytes 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.

Based on material from FOLDOC, used with permission.

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