While doing some research on the Sun Sparcstation-1 I was finding it difficult to search for pages that actually gave the prices of anything other than the basic diskless configuration. However, the review of the SparcStation in Personal Computer World (June 1989) in fact does. It's a comprehensive review and word reading!
This post is almost entirely just pictures!
The critical information I was looking for is near the end.
The entry-level price for a SPARCstation 1 with 8Mbytes of RAM, a single 1.44Mbyte floppy drive, a standard 1152x900 video board and a 17in grey-scale screen is £7400, while a system with two104Mbyte hard disks and the same video board driving a 16in 256-colour screen costs £12,700. With two hard disks, a 19in colour screen and the GX graphics accelerator, the price goes up to £16,400.
Conclusion
The Sun SparcStation 1 was a ground-breaking RISC workstation with a performance and price that matched x86 (i.e. the recently released i486) PCs for at least the next 12 months. I'm writing a series of blog posts on the machine. However, because data relating to the computer is getting lost to the internet over time it shows that having actual hard-copy magazines of the era can provide better and faster answers than Google (or another search engine).
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