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 FOR:  TECMAR TECHNOLOGIES INC.
 
 TSE SYMBOL:  TTI
 
 FEBRUARY 3, 1997
 
 Tecmar Doubles Warranty On Entire Product Line
 
 LONGMONT, COLORADO--Tecmar Technologies Inc. Monday announced that
 it is doubling the warranty across all of its product lines,
 including Wangtek quarter-inch cartridge, Wangtek Travan mini
 cartridge and WangDAT 4mm DAT tape drives.
 
 Effective immediately, buyers of any Tecmar Wangtek or WangDAT
 tape-drive product will receive a two-year warranty.
 
 Over the past year, Tecmar has successfully migrated its entire
 Wangtek and WangDAT product portfolio to next-generation
 platforms.
 
 "These next-generation products have improved technological and
 reliability features, which ultimately allows Tecmar to double the
 existing warranty coverage.  More importantly, doubling our
 warranty provides resellers with a greater degree of confidence to
 recommend and sell Tecmar products," said Amar Samra, director of
 product marketing for Tecmar.
 
 With the new universal DC6000 platform, Tecmar is producing some
 of the most reliable and highest-quality data cartridge tape
 drives available today.  The new WangDAT model 3800 and 3900 DAT
 products with built-in internal head cleaners result in greater
 reliability, thus minimizing data-related failures.
 
 The newly announced Wangtek TS420 Travan 4 product incorporates
 the industry's first read-while-write feature.  This feature
 dramatically speeds up the backup process by 100 percent and also
 improves data reliability by rewriting marginal data blocks that
 could potentially become unrecoverable during the data-restore
 process.
 
 According to Jan Lawford, director of vendor management for
 CHS-UK:  "Tecmar's introduction of next-generation products in
 quick succession and the new warranty coverage to two years
 demonstrates their competitiveness and their commitment to the
 European marketplace.
 
 "The extended warranty is very important to IT managers and
 resellers, as it provides an additional comfort level when
 choosing Tecmar's IT solutions."
 
 Tecmar Technologies, a subsidiary of Tecmar Technologies
 International Inc. (ToSE:TTI), is a leading provider of high-
 performance tape-storage solutions for networking storage
 environments.  The company's product line features Wangtek
 quarter-inch cartridge and Travan mini cartridge, and WangDAT 4mm
 DAT products ranging from 525MB to 24GB of storage capacity.
 
 Tecmar Technologies' products are sold worldwide to original-
 equipment manufacturers (OEMs), distributors and value-added
 resellers.  The company's home page on the World Wide Web is
 tecmar.com .
 
 For investor-relations information, contact John Thornton,
 director, investor relations, at 905/475-1077, ext. 258; e-mail
 john_thornton@tecmar.com .
 
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 NOTE TO EDITORS:  Tecmar, Tecmar Technologies, Wangtek and WangDAT
 are registered trademarks of Tecmar Technologies Inc.
 
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 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
 
 Tecmar Technologies Inc.
 Nancy Paquette
 (303) 702-7043
 nancy_paquette@tecmar.com
 tecmar.com
 or
 JPR Communications
 Judy Smith
 (818) 992-8867
 jprcommun@aol.com
 jprcom.com
 
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