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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
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        DIGITAL'S DSP3105 DISK DRIVE WINS MACUSER EDDY AWARD
                    FOR BEST 1992 STORAGE PRODUCT


MAYNARD, Mass. -- January 20, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today announced that MacUser magazine has selected its DSP3105, a 
3.5-inch high-performance, high-capacity disk drive, as the winner 
of the eighth annual Editor's Choice (Eddy) Award for Best Storage 
Product.  The Eddy Award recognizes the best Macintosh products of 
the year based on technological innovation, quality, performance and 
value to Macintosh users.

     "This award signifies another benchmark in the OEM Mass Storage 
Group's commitment to provide industry-leading solutions," said 
Charles Christ, vice president, Storage Business Unit for Digital.  
"We are pleased MacUser has recognized our success in surpassing 
market demands for increasingly sophisticated, reliable disk 
technology."

     "The Eddy Awards were designed by MacUser to recognize 
innovative, high-quality hardware and software products that reflect 
the trends shaping the Macintosh market," said Jon Zilber, MacUser's 
editor-in-chief.  "We awarded Digital's DSP3105 a 1992 Eddy Award 
because of its unparalleled performance over competitive products 
and its ability to provide a highly-reliable storage solution to 
Macintosh users."

     The DSP3105 is a FAST SCSI-2 disk drive featuring 1,050 
megabytes (1.05 gigabytes) of formatted capacity, 5,400 RPM 
rotational speed and 9.5 millisecond average seek time.  This 
3.5-inch drive also features Digital's 512-kb cache buffer and 
264-bit Reed-Solomon error correction code for increased performance 
and data reliability.  The DSP3105, released in January 1992, is 
designed for capacity-intensive and space-limited systems such as 
Macintosh systems, high-performance personal computers, LANs, and 
file servers.

     "The 1992 Eddy Award is a tremendous achievement and 
underscores Digital's OEM Disk Business' charter to provide the 
highest-quality, highest-performance disk drives," added Jack Sharp, 
the storage OEM business manager for Digital.  "Receiving ISO9000 
certification of our manufacturing processes, Novell NetWare 
certification of our disk drives, and now the Eddy Award, shows both 
the disk industry and our customers that we provide the highest 
levels of quality, performance, and reliability in the field."

     The Eddy Award, the Macintosh industry's most prestigious, is 
presented each year to 40 designers and manufacturers of new 
Macintosh hardware and software products, as well as to three 
individuals for their personal contributions to the Macintosh 
market.  MacUser's editors and lab technicians chose this year's 
winners from over 1,000 product submissions.  The ceremony was held 
during MacWorld in San Francisco, California.

     Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard, 
Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked 
computer systems, software and services.  Digital pioneered and 
leads the industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor 
computing.  Digital and its business partners deliver the power to 
use the best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center -
in open information environments.
                                ####

Note to Editors:  DSP3105 is a trademark of Digital Equipment 
                  Corporation.

     		  Macintosh is a registered trademark of Apple 
                  Computer, Inc.

     		  Novell is a registered trademark of Novell, Inc.

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