COMPAQ, CONNER, QUANTUM AND SEAGATE ESTABLISH BREAKTHROUGH IN DIAGNOSTIC
DESIGN

-- NEW SPECIFICATION TO ENHANCE HARD DRIVE CAPABILITIES

HOUSTON, February 6, 1995 -- Delivering on its promise to provide useful
and innovative tools for the information age, Compaq Computer Corporation
(NYSE: CPQ) today announced a breakthrough design to add diagnostics to
hard drives used in desktop personal computers.

Compaq, in conjunction with Conner Peripherals Inc., Quantum Corporation
and Seagate Technology Inc., is in the final development stages of a new
advanced drive diagnostics specification that with appropriate systems
software, will enable hard drives to predict and alert customers to
certain types of failures, thus preventing loss of critical data. This
will help customers, especially those with networks of desktop computers,
greatly reduce their unscheduled and costly computer downtime.

"Compaq continues to focus its efforts on developing new technology that is
useful in solving our customers' business problems of today," said John
Rose, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Compaq Desktop PC
Division. "Through cooperation from the leading drive manufacturers, we
will see these types of intelligent products shortly. This is another
example of the industry working together to make PCs easier to use and
less costly to maintain."

Compaq has been developing the new specification in cooperation with these
leading hard drive manufacturers, each of which has adopted the
specification and is currently developing new hard drives with the
prediction features. Compaq is also working with other industry leading
hard drive manufacturers to implement this specification in their
products.

Once finalized, Compaq will make its advanced drive diagnostics
specification available to the storage industry for incorporation into
standards being developed by appropriate industry groups. It is
anticipated that the new specification will be available for release to
the industry during the second quarter of 1995.

Industry Endorsements

"Conner is pleased to take part in the development of this specification to
enhance the reliability and availability of data," said Gary Marks, vice
president of marketing for disk drives at Conner Peripherals. "It's a step
forward for the computer industry and comes at a time when PCs are storing
a phenomenal amount of information critical to the success of an
organization. Like the oil gauge on a car, this specification is designed
to alert users before serious problems occur."

"As users demand more power and storage capacity from their computers, they
also need higher levels of system reliability," said Young Sohn, Quantum's
vice president of worldwide marketing, Desktop and Portables Storage
Group. "At Quantum we have a history of providing innovative features for
disk drive reliability and data integrity, and now go a step further with
this diagnostic feature. As a quality leader Quantum, along with Compaq,
is committed to standardizing and further enhancing system reliability
features."

"Disc drive enhancements like these advanced diagnostics are allowing
system manufacturers to bring mainframe-class reliability features to the
PC market," said Amyl Aloha, Seagate's vice president of Product Line
Management, Desktop and Mobile Products. "As mission-critical applications
continue to migrate from minicomputer and mainframe systems to the PC,
data storage reliability becomes increasingly more important for users of
PCs. While disc drives today offer a minimum of 300,000 hours MTBF (mean
time between failure), the addition of this diagnostics feature provides
another level of security to disc drives that greatly enhances a desktop's
ability to preserve all-important user data."

Company Background

Compaq Computer Corporation is a world leader in the manufacture of desktop
and notebook personal computers, and servers. Founded in 1982, the Company
reported 1994 worldwide sales of $10.9 billion. Compaq products are sold
and supported in more than 100 countries through a network of more than
38,000 Compaq marketing partners. Compaq also sells directly to customers
through Compaq DirectPlus at 1-800-888-5858.

Founded in 1986, Conner sells, designs and builds a comprehensive line of
information storage equipment, including disk drives, tape drives, storage
management software and disk array storage systems for a wide range of
computer applications.

Quantum Corporation is a leading supplier of storage products for a broad
range of computer platforms, serving OEM and distribution customers
worldwide. Widely recognized as the industry's quality leader, Quantum is
the largest supplier of hard disk drives worldwide. The company's sales
for the fiscal year ending March 1994 were $2.1 billion.

Seagate Technology is a data technology company that provides products for
storing, managing and accessing digital information on the world's
computer and data communications systems. Seagate's stock is traded on the
New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "SEG."

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