in 1990.

Designed for ease of production to compete with high-end PCs or Macs, its principal competitors were the IBM PS/2 Model 80, the NeXT Computer, and Sun's own 3/80. It sold for between about 8,995, with no hard disks, to US$15,400 with a hard disk (equivalent to $- in ). Within the first 18 months of its introduction, over 120,000 units were