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          DIGITAL ANNOUNCES TWO ADDITIONS TO ITS OEM FAMILY
           OF HIGH-CAPACITY, HIGH-PERFORMANCE DISK DRIVES

Digital Reinforces Commitment to Global OEM Mass Storage Market with
Expanded Staff of Applications Engineers, Customer Satisfaction Teams


SHREWSBURY, MA -- October 5, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today extended its OEM mass storage offerings with the introduction 
of two SCSI-2 disk drives providing unparalleled capacities and 
performance.  Digital's DSP5350 is the highest capacity 5.25-inch 
drive in the industry, with 3.5 gigabytes of formatted capacity.  The 
DSP3160 3.5-inch drive offers an industry-leading 1.6 gigabytes of 
formatted capacity.  Digital's commitment to this market was further 
evidenced by its announcement of key OEM Disk Business staff 
additions, including applications engineering, customer satisfaction, 
and sales and marketing personnel.
     "The OEM mass storage market is of critical strategic importance 
to Digital, and we are committed to offering our OEM customers the 
most advanced solutions available," said Charles Christ, vice 
president of small and medium enterprise computing for Digital.  
"With the addition of these leading disk drives supported by our 
strong and growing OEM disk team, Digital continues to provide the 
high-quality, comprehensive mass storage solutions this competitive 
global market demands."
     To meet the needs of its fast-growing OEM Disk Business customer 
base, Digital has dedicated additional sales and marketing, service, 
and applications engineering teams to the organization.  The 
applications engineering group, in particular, has been extended to 
provide the comprehensive support needed to effectively resolve 
customers' technical issues.  First established in early 1992, the 
applications engineering group personnel are now operating in North 
American, European and Asian markets.

New OEM Disk Business Products
     Digital's new disk drives lead the industry in capacity, data 
integrity and performance features.  These drives take advantage of 
Digital's patented Diamondhead thin-film heads for superior disk 
reliability, its industry leading multi-track segmented cache buffer 
for increased performance, and banded recording for maximum capacity 
and data transfer rates.  To ensure total data integrity, Digital 
drives incorporate a fully embedded servo, four headers per sector, 
264-bit Reed Solomon error correction code (ECC), and end-to-end 
error detection code (EDC).  Both new products feature a 5400 RPM
rotational speed and fast seek times for unparalleled data access 
rates, and 300,000-hour mean time between failure (MTBF).  They are 
available in 8-bit and 16-bit wide SCSI-2 configurations.
     "Computer systems manufacturers demand highly reliable, easily 
integrated disk drive solutions," said Peter Franklin, director of 
sales and marketing for the OEM Disk Business.  "By leveraging 
Digital's 20 years of proven mass storage experience and 
technological expertise, we are providing the level of quality, 
performance and reliability our disk customers have come to expect."

The DSP5350: 5.25-inch, 3.5 GB Disk Drive
     The DSP5350 is the highest-capacity 5.25-inch disk drive in the 
industry with 3,500 MB (3.5 GB) of formatted capacity.  With a 
rotational speed of 5400 RPM, the DSP5350 provides an average latency 
of 5.6 milliseconds.  Combined with its average seek time of 11.5 
milliseconds, this drive offers extremely fast, reliable access to 
data.  The DSP5350 also incorporates Digital's 5120-kb cache buffer, 
fully embedded servo, ECC and EDC, and banded recording features.  
Data transfer rates from the media are as high as 5.5 MB/s host 
transfer rates of up to 20 MB/s are achievable.
     The DSP5350 is designed for high-capacity, high-performance 
environments in local area networks (LANs), mirrored drive 
subsystems, array subsystems, engineering workstations, file servers, 
and midrange, multi-user/multi-program microcomputer systems.  
Typical applications include CAD/CAM, image processing, and 
electronic publishing.

The DSP3160: 3.5-inch, 1.6 GB Disk Drive
     The DSP3160 features 1,600 MB (1.6 GB of formatted capacity.  
With rotational speeds of 5400 RPM, an average latency of 5.6 
milliseconds, and an average seek time under 10 milliseconds, the 
DSP3160 is unparalleled in performance and reliability.  The DSP3160 
also features Digital's 512-kb cache buffer, fully embedded servo, 
ECC and EDC, and banded recording features.  Data transfer rates from 
the media are as high as 4.9 MB/s. host transfer rates up to 20 MB/s 
are achievable.
     The DSP3160 is designed for space-limited systems including 
array subsystems, high-performance workstations, personal computers, 
and network files servers.  Typical uses include Macintosh-and 
Windows-based systems, CAD/CAM, desktop publishing, color graphics, 
and multimedia applications.  Evaluation units of the DSP3160 will be 
priced at $2100 TBD, with first shipments beginning this month.  Mass 
production of the DSP3160 is expected in December 1992.
     The DSP5350 evaluation units will be shipped in November 1992, 
at $3800 TBD per unit.  Mass production will commence in January 
1993.
     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 partners deliver the power to use the 
best integrated solutions - from desktop to data center - in open 
information environments.
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