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- Subject: DECnews/Storage Products Win Digital News and Review Target Awards
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- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Maynard, Massachusetts 01754-2571
- Editorial contact:
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- Tom Madden
- (508)841-5365
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- DIGITAL'S MASS STORAGE PRODUCTS WIN
- DIGITAL NEWS AND REVIEW TARGET AWARDS
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- SHREWSBURY, MA -- December 28, 1992 -- Digital Equipment Corporation's
- TF86 tape drive and DSP5200 disk drive are first place winners in
- Digital News and Review's Target Awards for 1993, presented at the
- eighth annual awards banquet in Las Vegas earlier this month. Both
- products were voted best in their class by the more than 84,000
- subscribers to Digital News and Review.
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- Readers were asked to rate more than 40 product categories on user
- friendliness, technological innovation and price/performance. The
- Target Awards honor the products and services in the Digital marketplace
- most preferred by the readers of the publication.
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- "Best Tape Drive," the TF86 is a 6 Gigabyte, 1/2-inch, high-
- reliability tape drive with its own DSSI controller for direct
- connection to multiple CPUs in a VAX systems environment.
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- "Best Disk Drive(tied for first place)," the DSP5200 is a
- 5.25-inch, high-capacity, high-reliability disk drive designed and
- manufactured by Digital for the OEM market. The SCSI-2 drive features
- a formatted capacity of 2.0 Megabytes and an average seek time of 12.5
- milliseconds.
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- Portions of the proceeds from the Target Awards dinner will benefit
- the Museum of Science-Boston "Science By Mail" program for grade school
- students worldwide. Winning products will be profiled in the January
- 18, 1993, special edition of Digital News and Review.
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- Digital Equipment Corporation, headquartered in Maynard,
- Massachusetts, is the leading worldwide supplier of networked computer
- systems, software and services. Digital pioneered and leads the
- industry in interactive, distributed and multivendor computing. Digital
- and its business partners deliver the power to use the best integrated
- solutions -- from desktop to datacenter -- in open information
- environments.
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- CORP/93/940
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