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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
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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. The company is the world's leading
supplier of SCSI products and mixed-signal cell-based ASICs and offers
dedicated customer-owned tooling (COT) services.
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