FWB Plans Support for Apple's PCI-based Power Macintosh

Las Vegas, NV - COMDEX - November 14, 1994 FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the
Hammer brand of high performance mass storage products, today announced
its intent to provide full compatibility between its products and Apple
Computer's second-generation Power Macintosh systems incorporating the
industry standard PCI bus (Peripheral Component Interconnect).

"FWB shares Apple's vision of the Power Macintosh coupled with the high
performance PCI bus", commented Eric Herzog, FWB's Vice President of
Marketing. "As Apple moves towards PCI-based Power Macintosh, it will
further strength Apple's position in many markets, such as digital video,
color publishing, and multimedia. With our award-winning SledgeHammer
family of disk arrays and our high performance Hammer family of hard disk
subsystems, which are the storage standards in those markets, the
PCI-based Power Macintosh will allow us to push the performance envelope
even further".

FWB's entire family of disk storage subsystems will be fully compatible
with the PCI-based Power Macintosh. By extending the architecture of its
SCSI JackHammer to PCI, FWB's product line will offer enhanced Fast and
Wide SCSI-2 high performance and high fault tolerance solutions for the
PCI-based Power Macintosh. The JackHammer Fast/Wide SCSI-2 NuBus based
accelerator board was a 1993 MacUser Eddy Award Finalist for Best New
Storage Product.

FWB also announced that its comprehensive family of award-winning disk
management software, including Hard Disk ToolKit, Hard Disk
ToolKit-Personal Edition, RAID ToolKit and CD-ROM ToolKit, will also be
compatible with the PCI-based Power Macintosh.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products
specifically for the Macintosh platform, including the Apple PowerBook,
the Apple Workgroup Server 95 and the Power Macintosh. FWB products
include SledgeHammer RAID Arrays; Hammer, Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and
HammerPB hard drives; HammerDisk optical and removable drives; HammerTape
and HammerDAT tape backup systems; and the SCSI JackHammer SCSI-2
accelerator board. FWB also publishes RAID ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit,
Hard Disk ToolKit-Personal Edition disk management software, and CD-ROM
ToolKit accelerator software for CD-ROM drives. FWB's products have been
consistently rated the best in their class by publications such as
MacWEEK, MacUser, Macworld, PC WEEK, PC Magazine, and BYTE. FWB's Premium
Service has won the "Best Technical Support award from The Macintosh
Consultants Network. Inc. Magazine has ranked FWB on the Inc. 500 list of
fastest growing privately held companies for 1993 and 1994.

FWB, Inc
2040 Polk Street, Suite 215
San Francisco, CA 94109, USA
415-474-8055,  fax 415-775-2125,  AppleLink: FWB

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