Business 8ys. Offered by Savin·

Coatlaaed From Page Z'1 components, Savin will endeavor to obtain alternate IOUI'CeS of lupply"

Abe Ostrovsky. a Savin vice-president assiped to the new iystems

effort, said no such second source has been identified, but added that Savin has tbe option of manufacturing systems Itself. Accordln, to the prospectus. Convergent currently has the capacity to produce 700 systems a month and In .rly 11)82 should be up to 1,500 units per month. Savin Is ex-pecting unit shipments of S,_ ill 198Z and 8,137 in 1983.

The Savin lnfonnatlon Stations in-dude both IOftware and hardware ad-ditions to the Convergent products. A proprietary keyboard includes a touch panel with SO function keys that can be altered for different programI with a series of overlays. The word proc:essiDg software, which wiD even-tually lnc:lude four levels of fune-tionallty, wu developed by Savin Corp. and sold to Savin Asaoc:lates f~r

$7 million. In addlUon, Savin bas developed vertical market packages for distribution businesses and profes-sional offices and will add other ver-tical products developed internally and by third-party software houses, company officials said.

The systems will be marketed Im-mediately with word processing only, but will have general business ap-plications and vertical packages available during the second quarter of

1982. Savin said. The basic word processing program, Savipak I, is priced at M85 with an additional monthly license/update fee of $20.

Savipak 2, whicb has not been priced, will follow In July and is expected to have list processing and other ad-vanced functions. Savlpak 3, scheduled for Introduction In the fourth quarter, will add a spelling cor-rection function, columnar math and spelling verification. In addition to Savipak I, currently available software includes CT Basic, priced at

$500. 2001, a Single-floppy system with 192K bytes of RAM. The 2002, with 128K bytes of RAM and dual floppies, is

$9,450. Two 2S6K-byte systems with 10 and 20 me,abytes of a-incb Winchester disk storage are also available at. '16,750 and '18,750, respectively. A 45-c:ps Qame dalsy wheel printer is available for $2,545, but Savin officials said other printers including bigh-and low-speed matrix prlnters will be offered.

Savin, wbich will provide marketinK, service and support for Savin Associates on a fee basis, bas established Savin Information Systems at its previous word process-ing manufacturprocess-ing plant In Sunnyvale, Calif. There, customer service, quality control, spares stoc:ldng and software development win take place.

Part of the Savin software effort will be to provide "custom" applications for users who answer a serles of ques_

tions on a special disk and return it to Savin. Tbe Sunnyvale faciUty will also have a toll free. telephone number for customer questions and remote diagnostics.

Mr. Ostrovsky said Savin Corp. will add a bigh-speed nonimpact printer based on Savin copier tec:hnolOl)' for the Information Station .Une. He declined to predict when the I)'Item printer will be Introduced.

ELECTRONIC NEWS. MONDAY. DECE~~ 14. 1881

c. ltoh to Enter U.S. Small Computer Market in 1982

IRVINE, Calif. - C. Uob Electronics will enter the U.s. small computer martet early aext year tbrouCh a DeW IUblidiary. beret wbicb WiD martet systems 'bailt by Bitacbl Ltd.

CIE Systems. lac., was iDeor-porated in October aDd c:apitaUzed with more tbaD " mUlloa from C.

ltob Electraaies. ^aD AmericaD sub-aIdiary of C. ltob " Co. Ltd., a Japaese tradlDc eompaay witb SSG blllioD ill worldwide . . . .

Jay L. Kear, a former Geaeral AutomaUOll vice-prelldeat aacI ex-, ecutive vice-president aDd paeral

mauacer of CIE ~, aid the company wiD introduee.,stems

raac-iDe iD retaQ prlce from tto,OOO to

$100.000 in late January or early February for shipment in mlcH182.

The systems will be based 011 abe Motorola 61000 mic:roproceslOl' aDd will ule the VenadOi operatlq system and Data Tec:lmlcal Aaab'ItI' Pro, a pac:kap wbicb II said to eaable

DOD-pI'OII'UIUI to write busIDesI applieatioas. Mr. !tear u1d lbe systems WiD also be avaDable With UDiz in a later IOftware releue.

The CIE computen were deslped by C. ltob iD the U.s. and WiD be built by Bitacbi ac:laIhely for C. ltob.

They are the result of a s-,ear C.ltob project wbieJa also produeed a prototype stand-aIoDe word pruceI-101'. that was Ibowa at tbe C. ltob bootb dariDg tbe 1111 Natloaal

Com-pater Coafereace as tbe XlOO, but was later abandoned. Mr. !tear aid tbe

COIIlpaDy decided a ruge of smaD computers - deYeJoped UDder tbe.

Dame X4000 - would proYlde the eompuy With a better entry lata the U.S. camputer martet. He added that some features of tbe Xloo will be iD-corpora ted iDtO aD IDteJll,eDt worUtatioa for the X4000 computers.

Mr. !tear aid the eompIily Is orden peadiDc, but dediDed to

idea-tlfy the CUItomen.

Be DOted. boweYer, that tbe

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add produc:ts to 1iDt office products such al copiers. compaterlzed telepboae systems aDd facsimile equipment iato c:omputer aetworb.

ELECI'RONIC NEWS. MONDAY. DECEMBER 21. 1.1

In a move to bolster its office systems effort, PrIme Com-puter is understood to be lining up an OEM supplier of stand-alone word processors. Those in the running are said to include Syntrex, IDe., ArteIoDlcs Corp., and the seemingly-ubiquitous-CODvement TedmOl~es. At the same- time, the company bas cance eel plans to wid its own terminals in Springfield, Mass., and will use land purchased there for another

un-specified project.

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ELEc:TRONIC NEWS. MOl"DA'i. JA~U ARY 4. 1982

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Another 16-bit-based microcomputer system will be unveiled this May when DyDabyte Corp. introduces a multi-user ^system internally code-named Monarch. Tbe system will compete In i

the OEM market with computers from

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Teclmologles and PleDS and will offer a. variety of popUlii'

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nucrocomputeroperating systems JncludiDgCPMt- MPM. Unix

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and <>isis. The Dynabyte system wiD accommodate 16 users ^I' and is expected to seD for well UDder $10,000.

ELECTRO\"rc \F ' -ConvergeDt TecbDologies last w~

signed an overseas distribution con-tract with TRW Datacom, lining up what sources close to ConveJ'IeDt said is an agreement that could exceed the value of earlier OEM contracts with Burroughs, NCR. TbomsoD-CSF aad Savin.

The agreemeut - which is UDder-stood to be aon-exeJusive - gives TRW a small computer system to replace the Datapoillt products it dis-tributed abroad ill the past. Last year TRW IOld its DatapoiDt distribution organization to Datapoint iD a $102 range as Convergent's' previous c0n-tracts witlt Burroughs aDd NCR.

wbidl bave beea pegged at about SlOO million. Sources close to Convergent said the contract could grow much larger, however. pointing out that TRW's business with Datapoint has been estimated at more than $150 mil-lion annually.

Michels refused to comment further

~ on the contract.

The agreement is not believed to in-clude an option for TRW eventually to buy into Convergent. Some of Convergent systems under tbe Convergent logo just as it had used the Datapoint name; however, the Convergent equipment Is not operating system-compatible with Dalapoint hardware.