Micro Solutions, Inc. Announces New Higher Capacity Backpack Tape Drive

Micro Solutions, Inc. will release a new higher capacity backpack
plug-and-play tape drive in the third quarter of this year. The new model
will be referred to as the backpack 3010 tape drive and will include both
Windows and DOS backup software. Suggested retail price will be targeted
at $599 (U.S.). It will join the existing backpack 250 tape drive which
was released in September, 1991 and is Micro Solutions' leading product
performer. Both plug-and-play printer port drives are QIC (Quarter-Inch
Cartridge) formats.

Backpack tape drives are external plug-and-play printer port drives. They
attach via the parallel printer port. No internal adapter card is
required. Backpack drives are compatible with all PCs, compatibles and
portables. Both models of backpack tape drives come with a two year
warranty.

The backpack 3010 is being introduced to keep up with growing capacities of
hard drives. The 3010 will be the next standard in the QIC tape drive
industry. Native data capacity of the backpack 3010 is 340MB which can be
extended up to 680MB of storage with compression. These capacities are
achieved by using a 400 foot length tape. Transfer speed is rated at up to
9MB per minute.

The backpack 3010 has several important benefits: 1) provides more than
twice the existing storage space, eliminating the need for multiple-tape
backups; 2) keeps up with current hard drive capacities; and 3) provides
backwards compatibility. Backpack 3010 will read both QIC-40 and 80 tapes
but will not write to either.

The 3010 drives achieve higher storage capacity by recording more bits per
inch and more tracks per tape. They do however require a new style of tape
to operate, the MC 3000 or MC 3000XL. The new QIC tape cartridge will
still be the same size as a standard DC 2000, but it will have a 900
oerstead (Oe) media formulation.

Backpack is a family product name which is shared by all of the Micro
Solutions external parallel printer port drives. Backpacks are also
available in CD-ROM, hard drive and diskette drive models. Micro Solutions
products are distributed worldwide. For distribution/dealer information,
contact Micro Solutions, Inc., 132 W. Lincoln Hwy., DeKalb, IL 60115,
U.S.A., 800.890.7227, Ext. 200 (U.S.A./Canada) or 815.756.3411

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