What are the Economies?
HARDWARE. The Shared-Disc System allows the cost of one disc drive to be shared between several micros. So the benefits of disc storage can be extended to several users without buying more disc drives. Many so-called ‘networks’ require one micro full time to run the discs, thus losing it as a user station. The 480Z Shared-Disc System allows every station to be used, without significantly encroaching on its memory capacity. The economies are significant. Four RML micros in a Shared-Disc configuration give a real overall saving of 40% over four separate micros, each with its own disc drive. SOFTWARE. On sites with more than one microcomputer, much of the software is often duplicated for each micro: systems information, languages, programs and applications. With the Shared-Disc System, you can share the programmes you have developed, without having to copy them for each computer. And of course, data files can be shared in the same way. This makes Shared-Disc an ideal configuration for cla
