HP NetServer

NetServer was a line of x86-based server and workstation computers sold by Hewlett-Packard from 1993 to 2002. It was Hewlett-Packard's first entry in the commodity local area networking market.
The NetServer line comprised a wide range of models featuring differing form factors and processor configurations.
NetServer was succeeded by ProLiant in 2002, a line of servers previously owned by Compaq whom HP acquired in 2002.

History

Hewlett-Packard introduced the x86-based NetServer line of servers and workstations on May 1993, with the LE series and LM series. The NetServer LE low-cost option, sporting a minitower case. The cheapest model in the LE range features a 33-MHz i486SX chip, 4 MB of memory, and no built-in hard disk drives. More higher-end models in the LE range feature i486 and DX2 processors clocked at 33 MHz and 66 MHz, respectively. The NetServer LM series, meanwhile, sported cases twice as wide in order to accommodate up to eight hard drives in a RAID 0, RAID 1, or RAID 5 array. These LM-series NetServers featured either a 33-MHz i486, a 66-MHz DX2, or single or dual Pentium processors. The entire NetServer line initially competed with HP's own RISC-based 9000 line of workstations as well as Compaq's ProLiant line of servers that were introduced around the same time, of which HP would ultimately acquire later on in 2002. The LE-series models were released to market on May 17, 1993; the LM-series models were scheduled to ship later in July.
Later entries in the NetServer line featured single or dual Pentium II and Pentium III processors.
HP acquired Compaq in 2002, which accounted for HP borrowing numerous different product lines from the previously independent company. With this, HP discontinued the NetServer line that same year, replacing it with the ProLiant line of servers that were originally introduced by Compaq back in 1993 as a competitor to the NetServer at that time.