Technology Briefs

Oki has cut the price of its Led page printer OL1200ex from #1,199 to a street price of #845. The OL1200ex is PCL5e compatible and can print at 12ppm.

NEC has revamped its low-end notebook range, launching the Versa 550D colour notebook based around the Cyrix 5X86/100 processor. NEC claims the chip performs on a par with the Intel 75MHz Pentium. The new Versa notebook is priced at #1,495. The base model comes with a 540Mb hard disk.

Digital's corporate storage business unit has standardised on Fibre Channel as its serial SCSI technology for its Storageworks range of storage products. The company will still develop and support its existing range of parallel SCIS technology. The Fibre Channel offers increased bandwidth and flexibility.