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                                              Digital Equipment Corporation
                                          Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
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Jeffry Gibson
(508) 493-6865
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Nikki Richardson
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               DIGITAL NAMES STADECKER VICE PRESIDENT,
                        EXECUTIVE OPERATIONS


MAYNARD, MA -- January 27, 1993 -- Digital Equipment Corporation 
today announced the appointment of Adriana Stadecker as Vice 
President, Executive Operations, reporting to Robert B. Palmer, 
president and CEO.

     Stadecker, 46, has been managing the company's redesign and 
restructuring efforts and working with the senior management team 
to lead the implementation of the new company direction. In this 
new position, she also will be responsible for overseeing the 
process of developing strategic and operational plans for achieving 
the company's short- and long-term financial and business 
objectives.

     Commenting on the appointment, Palmer said, "Adriana is playing 
a key role in transforming Digital into a more customer-focused and 
more competitive company. Her work is pivotal to building the 
organizational structure and evolving the strategy for returning 
the company to profitability.  She brings a record of success in 
developing business strategies and managing worldwide business 
plans."

     She joined Digital in 1981 and has served in a series of 
business planning and human resource management positions.  In 1987, 
as a group manager in the Printed Wiring Board (PWB) Group, she was 
responsible for the worldwide PWB strategic plan.  Stadecker was 
named group personnel manager, Semiconductor and Interconnect 
Technology, in 1988.  Prior to joining the Office of the President 
in October, 1992, she managed the program office responsible for 
planning and implementing Digital's supply chain change effort and 
was the Worldwide Manufacturing and Logistics human resource 
manager.  Before joining Digital, she held a variety of university 
and government agency research, development, and planning positions 
in the U.S., and prior to that was a practicing architect in 
Argentina.

     Stadecker received a Ph.D. in planning from Massachusetts 
Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1975; and a Master's degree in 
Architecture from the Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 
1969.

     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.
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CORP/93/970
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