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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
Editorial contact:

Tom Madden
Mass Storage
(508) 841-5365




            DIGITAL EQUIPMENT EXTENDS ITS OPEN ADVANTAGE

                 PROGRAM TO MASS STORAGE SUBSYSTEMS


MAYNARD, Mass. -- September 29, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today announced the extension of its Open Advantage strategy to 
encompass mass storage.  Designed to meet changing business needs of 
its customers, the Open Advantage for mass storage includes new 
directions in openness, subsystem configuration flexibility, price/
performance leadership and investment protection.
     According to Charlie Christ, Digital's vice president for Mass 
Storage, "The design goal of Digital's new mass storage Open 
Advantage strategy is to provide open, flexible and upgradeable I/O 
solutions for current and future computing systems."  Christ said, 
"Our approach will produce highly competitive devices that use 
industry standard interfaces, a family of controllers to connect the 
devices to all of our host interconnects, a modular packaging scheme, 
and value-added software for configuring subsystems to meet 
customers' applications and business needs."
     "We have chosen the SCSI-2 standard," Christ added, "because it 
is open, offers excellent performance, and has the widest variety of 
devices available, either from Digital or other vendors.  We intend 
to compete vigorously in the commodity disk and tape market, passing 
on to our customers the competitive pricing benefits of volume drive 
production."
     As a first step toward the next generation of Digital's storage 
subsystems, the company today announced two new HSC controllers that 
offer significantly higher performance and are "SCSI-2-ready"(see 
separate fact sheet).  Designated the HSC65 and HSC95, the new 
controllers provide a 40% increase in throughput, include HSC High 
Performance Software V7.0, and include cache at no extra charge.
     SCSI-2 connectivity will be accomplished via new channel cards,
occupying one slot in the HSC.  An HSC65 will support up to three 
channel cards while the HSC95 will support a maximum of four.  These 
new channel cards, and SCSI-2-ready upgrade kits for HSC40, 60, 70, 
and 90 are expected to ship in Q-1 of calendar 1993.
     Separate fact sheets are also included on the RA73, Digital's 
new 2.0 Gbyte SDI disk drive in 5.25-inch format, and the new 
DECarray 900 SDI/STI Storage Subsystem options.
     The RA73 is a full-height Digital Storage Architecture device
with dual port SDI functionality, and doubles the capacity of the 
RA72 drive through an increase of the disk's aerial density, 
resulting in a significantly lower cost per MB of storage.
     The DECarray 900 SDI/STI storage array offers flexibility for
high-performance, high-capacity storage with complete unattended 
backup in a single cabinet.  At 67 inches high, the DECarray 900 can 
house a mix of TA857 or TA867 magazine tape subsystems, SA71, SA72 
and SA73 storage array building blocks(SABBs), RA92 disk drives and 
high-performance ESE50 solid state disks.
     Today's new strategy announcement, Christ said, "truly reflects 
an Open Storage Advantage for Digital and its customers.  We are 
standardizing devices across all interconnects, opening our 
proprietary busses to third parties through Open Business Practice 
licensing programs, offering unparalleled configuration flexibility 
through modularity, and, most importantly, enabling our customers to 
take advantage of these advances while protecting their existing 
investments."
     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.
                                 ####


Note to Editors:  Digital and the Digital logo, HSC, DSA, RA, SA, 
                  SDI, VAX, ULTRIX, VAXcluster, VAXELN, VAXsimPlus 
                  and VMS are trademarks of Digital Equipment 
                  Corporation.

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