NetWorld, Boston -- February 11, 1992. Corel Systems Corporation today announced CorelSCSI, the most extensive SCSI solution available on the market. Corel has made a commitment with this product to support every SCSI device currently available, and to continue to add support for new devices as they are introduced. CorelSCSI will make SCSI the interface of choice for all major manufacturers of PC systems and peripherals and will foster future development of SCSI devices with This revolutionary product. Corel is internationally renowned as the developer of CorelDRAW, the world's top selling illustration program. With CorelSCSI, Corel will continue its commitment to provide extensive features and high performance with its products, all at an incredible value. CorelSCSI is feature-packed and priced aggressively at $150US for the 8 bit ISA kit, $195US for the 8 bit Micro Channel version, and $325US for the 16 bit Bus Master ISA version. Corel will begin shipping this product in March. Dr. Michael Cowpland, President and CEO of Corel Systems Corporation stated: "Our goal is to make CorelSCSI the world-wide standard. We feel that the market is ripe to take full advantage of SCSI with universal support for all devices. CorelSCSI will lead this surge of interest - it is simply the easiest and best way to connect peripherals to your PC." Each CorelSCSI kit contains a SCSI host adapter, designed and engineered by Corel (using exclusively NCR SCSI chips including the 53C700 I/O processor), CorelDRIVER software for SCSI devices, SCSI cable and comprehensive documentation. CorelSCSI will also include an "easy to install" videotape, an unprecedented innovation for this industry. In addition, each CorelSCSI kit will include SitBack software, a complete backup program which will automatically backup important data to DOS devices. The CorelSCSI 16 bit Bus Master kit supports CD-ROM drives, hard drives, 1/4" tape, DAT drives, WORM drives, rewritable drives, and multifunction drives. Unlike any other product in the industry, the 16 bit kit will support transparent access for optical disk jukeboxes on NetWare 386 file servers! This kit operates under DOS, Windows, Novell NetWare 386 and OS/2 operating systems. The 16 bit SCSI card provides the fastest universal interface with transfer rates of up to 10 MB/sec. The 16 bit kit provides a unique feature called "auto-sense termination" which automatically unterminates the SCSI card when it is no longer the last device on the SCSI chain. This eliminates the need for users to open their computers to either terminate or unterminate their SCSI card. Improper termination is the most common issue with SCSI devices and this feature is a significant industry advancement. The 8 bit CorelSCSI kits (both ISA and Micro Channel) support CD-ROM drives, hard drives, 1/4" tape, DAT drives, WORM drives, rewritable drives, and multifunction drives under DOS, Windows or OS/2. These low cost kits allow the connection of today's most popular peripherals. The 8 bit SCSI card has a 2.5 MB/sec asychronous transfer rate. As with CorelDRAW, users of CorelSCSI will have access to unlimited hotline support and a convenient 24-hour technical support bulletin board service (BBS). All CorelSCSI products are covered by a full, three-year warranty. Since 1987, Corel has been a leading developer of SCSI optical disk drivers. Since 1989, over 75% of all 51/4" WORM drives for the PC, Macintosh and Novell were shipped with the award-winning CorelDRIVER software. CorelSCSI will be distributed in the United States through Ingram Micro, Marshall Industries, Merisel and Cal-Abco. Distribution in Canada will be through Betacorp Technologies, Ingram Micro, Merisel, and TechData. Founded in 1985 by Dr. Michael Cowpland, Corel Systems Corporation is a graphics and SCSI products development company. CorelDRAW, Corel's premiere PC graphics package, has won over 50 industry awards from leading trade publications world-wide. Corel Systems Corp The Corel Building, 1600 Carling Ave Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA K1Z 8R7 613-728-8200 -------------------------------------------------------- COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO., February 11, 1992 -- NCR Microelectronic Products Division announced today that NCR's Small Computer Systems Interface (SCSI) products will be used exclusively in the CorelSCSI kits which Corel Systems Corp. of Ottawa, Ontario, is introducing today. The 8- and 16-bit kits provide a complete solution for multi-platform personal computer (PC) SCSI peripheral applications. The Corel offering gives PC users, for the first time, the versatility that permits the transparent realization of the full potential of SCSI-driven peripherals through the addition of peripheral-specific drivers. The Corel offering includes SCSI host adaptor boards and a wide range of software drivers for popular peripherals including CD-ROMs, juke boxes and optical storage devices. Although SCSI has long been accepted in the Apple computer and the engineering workstation markets, Corel's is the first hardware and software product offering made available to users of IBM-compatible PCs and operating systems with a selection of software applications similar to those enjoyed by Apple users. In the past, the lack of PC operating system software standards has limited OEM acceptance in the PC arena. As a result, SCSI has historically been seen as the only alternative to the PC disk interface. Michael W. Morrissey, vice president, NCR Microelectronic Products Division, stated, "Our customers want the flexibility of painlessly migrating SCSI into the PC architecture. Corel's impressive software offering will greatly improve acceptance in this marketplace." "Corel's announcement is a significant SCSI break-through and a tribute to the breadth of our SCSI offering and support. NCR is the only SCSI vendor who has the range of SCSI product solutions that Corel needed to implement their exciting new offering," he concluded. NCR was an early SCSI technology developer and currently holds a significant percentage of the SCSI worldwide market. The ANSI committee which is standardizing SCSI-2 (and looking forward to the standardization of SCSI-3) is chaired by NCR. SCSI products which Corel is utilizing in their new offering represent three generations of NCR product development, including versions of the 53C700 advanced SCSI intelligent I/O processor, the popular 53C90 family and the cost-effective 53C80 family. Migration to Fast SCSI-2 in Corel's products and on the part of NCR customers using Corel products is made transparent due to the upward compatibility of current software with future SCSI-2 and SCSI-3 based products. NCR, the Networked Computing Resource of AT&T, develops, manufactures, markets, supports and services enterprise-wide systems for worldwide markets. NCR Microelectronic Products Division develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of semiconductor and board-level products including highly integrated digital and mixed-signal cell-based ASICs, SCSI, graphics, Ethernet LAN products, disk array (RAID) subsystems, wireless LAN subsystems and multichip modules. 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