Grass Valley Group Includes SledgeHammer in VideoDesktop

World Leader in Broadcast Editing Systems Selects FWB to Supply Storage

Menlo Park, March 27, 1995. FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the award-winning
Hammer brand of high performance mass storage products, today announced
that the Grass Valley Group has selected FWB as the vendor for mass
storage in their new VideoDesktop Personal production Suite--a
preconfigured high quality digital video workstation incorporating Data
Translation's Media100 technology.

One FWB SledgeHammer8200FMF will be bundled with every complete
VideoDesktop system from the Grass Valley Group. Designed for video
professionals working at all levels, the VideoDesktop provides users with
a complete range of features and the capability to create programs from
start to finish on a singular system--including high performance mass
storage from FWB. FWB's hammerDLT10G high speed digital linear tape backup
subsystem is an available option to each system.

"The Grass Valley Group took great consideration in selecting the
SledgeHammer," said Tom Fristoe, Director of Channel Marketing and
Strategic Relations at FWB. "This is a tribute to our technology and
understanding of the digital video marketplace. We are thrilled to be
working with a company of Grass Valley's stature." FWB's strategic
partnerships in the digital video arena include Radius, manufacturers of
VideoVision Studio, and Data Translations, manufacturers of the Media100.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products
specifically for the Macintosh platform, including the Apple PowerBook,
the Apple Workgroup Server 95 and the Power Macintosh. FWB products
include SledgeHammer RAID Arrays; Hammer, Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and
HammerPB hard drives; HammerDisk optical and removable drives; HammerTape
and HammerDAT tape backup systems; and the SCSI JackHammer SCSI-2
accelerator board. FWB also publishes RAID ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit,
Hard Disk ToolKit-Personal Edition disk management software, and CDROM
ToolKit accelerator software for CD-ROM drives. FWB's products have been
consistently rated the best in their class by publications such as
MacWEEK, MacUser, Macworld, AV Video Magazine, PC Magazine, and BYTE.
FWB's PremiumService has won the "Best Technical Support" award from The
Macintosh Consultants Network. Inc. Magazine ranked FWB on the Inc. 500
list of fastest growing privately held companies in both 1993 and 1994.

FWB Inc
1555 Adams Dr
Menlo Park, CA 94025
415-325-4FWB,  fax 415-833-4657
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AppleLink: FWB
CIS: 71320,1034
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