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To: s. bateh who wrote (52029)4/6/1998 8:11:00 PM
From: robert read  Respond to of 58324
 
Monday April 6, 10:56 am Eastern Time

Company Press Release

SOURCE: Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Showcases Visual Computing Solutions At NAB '98

High-Performance Servers, Workstations Target Media Content Creation
Market

LAS VEGAS, April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Equipment Corporation (NYSE: DEC - news) today introduced the AlphaServer ImageTower and new Creation Studio 3D workstations, powerful systems that advance the company's position as the premier supplier of high-performance computing solutions for content creators in broadcast and other media. Unveiled at NAB'98 (National Association of Broadcasters), the systems mark Digital's ongoing success at enabling creative professionals to work faster, more inventively and at lower cost.

The Creation Studio 500a is the fastest Windows NT workstation available, running on the Alpha-Powered 500 MHz processor. The Creation Studio 300i+ and 333i+ provides Pentium II performance at 300 MHz or 333MHz and is available with single or dual processors and the Intel 440LX chipset. Both systems now feature a 19'' (18.'' vis, .26DP) energy star monitor, Digital PowerStorm 4D10 graphics with 8MB VRAM,

64MB SDRAM, 100MB Iomega Zip drive, and 4.3GB uSCSI2 disk drive, expandable to over 35GB in the box. The Creation Studio 500a also includes 2MB L3 cache, native Alpha NT Iomega software tools, and FX!32 V. 1.3 for WIN32 compatibility. The systems remain aggressively priced at $4995 (estimated U.S. selling price).