DETAILS OF HISTORIC SPACE MISSION TO BE AVAILABLE ON THE WORLD-WIDE WEB

Convex High Performance Server to Act as Host

RICHARDSON, Texas, June 22, 1995 --- Details of this week's historic space
shuttle mission will be available on-line via a new World-Wide Web (WWW)
server hosted on a Convex Computer Corporation C Series supercomputer at
the Johnson Space Center in Houston. The mission objective is the docking
of the Atlantis and the Russian Mir space station. This flight, the 100th
manned space mission for the United States, is the first of seven planned
by NASA to the Russian station over the next 2 1/2 years.

Web users can access the mission reports through http://shuttle.nasa.gov.,
or through the Convex Web site, http://www.convex.com. Information will be
updated several times daily with direct reports from the Atlantis and the
Russian space station. NASA is expecting approximately one million
accesses a day.

NASA needed a high bandwidth system to handle the expected large number of
inquiries. The decision was made to set up the web site on their Convex
system, primarily a tool for design engineers, because it provides the
high-performance capacity required.

"We are proud to play a role in the reporting of this historic event and
are looking forward to continued involvement as the future missions are
carried out, " said Robert J. Paluck, Convex Chairman and CEO. "Convex
systems, such as the server at the Johnson Space Center, offer high
performance capabilities that enable customers to extend beyond standard
web server technology."

The mission plan calls for the shuttle to dock with Mir on Monday, June 26.
The occupants of the two spacecraft are prepared for five days of cargo
exchanges and medical experiments. It will also be the first time that a
shuttle delivers an exchange of crew members to the space station and
brings home some of the original crew.

The information carried on the WWW will be focused primarily on the status
of the mission, the accomplishments and findings the crew has made from
their experiments, and commentary from Norm Thagard, the U.S. astronaut
who has been aboard the Mir since mid-March. Visitors will be given a
chance to submit a question to the crew. Crew members will answer some of
the questions on live air-to-ground communication channels as time
allows.

Convex Computer Corporation (NYSE:CNX), headquartered in Richardson, Texas,
is a leading worldwide supplier of high-performance computing
technologies. The company markets its products primarily to scientific,
engineering, and technical users for a wide variety of applications in
areas such as seismic processing, reservoir simulation, computational
chemistry, computer-aided engineering, image processing, aerospace
simulations, data management, and molecular biology. Convex has sold more
than 1,430 systems to over 688 customers in 48 countries. The systems are
sold and serviced through direct sales and an extensive distribution
network.

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