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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
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           DIGITAL AWARDED ITS FIRST GSA CONTRACT FOR PC'S



WASHINGTON, D.C. -- August 20, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
has concluded negotiations for its first General Services 
Administration (GSA) microcomputer products and services contract, 
known as the GSA Group 70 B-C Schedule Contract.
     The contract enables Digital to begin selling its DESKTOP 
DIRECT products and multivendor services at a negotiated discount to 
the $5 billion Federal Government microcomputer market.
     "Now that Digital's DESKTOP DIRECT products are on the GSA 
Schedule Contract, all U.S. Government customers can order these 
products and services more easily than before.  Using the GSA 
Schedule Contract, they can pick up the phone and order from our 
catalog as quickly and conveniently as computer users in the private 
sector," said Jack MacKeen, Vice President of Digital's Aerospace, 
Defense Electronics and Government Group.
     Digital is currently the industry's fastest growing PC vendor, 
according to Computer Intelligence, a La Jolla, California-based 
market research firm.
     Digital's larger computers have long been included in a 
separate GSA contract, the A Schedule Contract, which covers 
mainframes, minicomputers, and associated peripherals and services.
     Prior to the B-C Schedule Contract announcement, the U.S. 
Government customers could purchase stand-alone Digital PC's only 
through individual Federal procurements. 
     Products available under the B-C Schedule Contract include 
DECpc's, DECstations, DECpc Workstations, DECjet printers, DEClaser 
printers, PC memory, and SCSI hard disks and tapes.
     Services available under the B-C Schedule Contract include 
desktop services for both Digital and third-party products, 
system/LAN performance tuning, on-site repair service, hardware and 
software installation, staging, advisory service, carry-in 
maintenance service, and laptop mail-in service.
     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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Note to Editors:  DESKTOP DIRECT is a trademark of Digital Equipment 
                  Corporation.

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