Reliability is Everything ...

What do you do when your company already offers the world's most popular UPS protection? You make it better. True to our philosophy of always giving our customers more for their money, we'sre pleased to introduce the latest incarnation of our innovative Smart-UPS line of UPS for network applications.

Take a look at SmartSlotTM, QuickSwapTM, SmartTrimTM and a host of new features now incorporated in APC Smart-UPS. Each delivers benefits which will save you time and money, and increase the convenience of protecting your network.

We'sve also continued to expand our product offerings to provide maximum protection for today's applications. For example, check out our new ProtectNet network surge suppressors . For distributed networks, data line protection is essential, and a necessary complement to AC line protection.

And of course, we'sve continued to lower our prices to make protection affordable for everyone, including those who need it most, such as home users. APC Back-UPS start at just $119, and for an environment which has blenders, furnaces, and vacuum cleaners in close proximity to home computers, protection is paramount.

Finally, APC's quality and reliability continue to win praise from industry, editors, and users alike. We have now won more than 50 independent awards for product performance and reliability. When you purchase APC, you can purchase with confidence. Thank you for your ongoing interest in APC products. Please let us know if there is any way we can help make your business more productive.

Rodger B. Dowdell, Jr.

Chairman, President,
Chief Executive Officer

P.S. Financial World recently ranked APC second in financial performance and expected growth, and Forbes ranked APC first on its Top Tier list of the best small companies in America. To learn more, see APC's listing on the NASDAQ exchange under the symbol APCC.

	Voted most reliable by 3-to-1 margin
When asked which brand of UPS is the most reliable, more than 700 users of PC Magazine's Bulletin Board 
Service overwhelmingly chose APC almost 3-to-1 over the next leading brand.


	4 times as many MIS users plan to buy APC
APC was again found to be the most preferred brand in a 1994 survey of readers conducted by Information Week. 
With the combination of high performance features, highest reliability, best value and lowest cost of ownership, 
it's no wonder that APC is the brand most preferred by MIS professionals.