GRiD Announces Convertible 486 Notebook 
The Ultimate Notebook Computer For the Highly Mobile Professional

Westlake, TX, June 14 -- GRiD Systems today announced a more powerful
486-based version of its award-winning Convertible notebook computer. The
new Convertible 486 is designed for use by the highly mobile professional
who needs the power and convenience of today's latest applications in a
mobile environment. In addition to providing more processing power, this
new addition to the Convertible notebook family has longer battery life,
additional power management features, and is priced competitively among
similarly classed notebooks.

"The Convertible 486 is the ultimate notebook computer for the highly
mobile professional who needs the additional processing power to operate
today's resource intensive and graphical operating environments," said
Rosendo Parra, vice president and general manager for GRiD Direct. "We are
confident its superior mobility, intuitive pen pointing device, lifetime
guarantee on the case, and competitive price will make our Convertible 486
the portable system of choice for today's notebook buyers."

Like all portable GRiD products, the Convertible 486 is designed for rugged
everyday use in or out of the office, on the road, in the air, or in the
field. The Convertible 486 is built with a magnesium DuraShell case with
an exclusive lifetime guarantee, a shock resistant hard drive, and
features tempered glass over the display panel.

The Convertible 486 comes standard with MS-DOS 6.0, Microsoft Windows for
Pens 3.1, and a version of the PenCell spreadsheet from PenWare, Inc. The
system also features simultaneous video, so live presentations and
demonstrations can be performed using both the system's internal display
and an external color VGA monitor or video projection system. GRiD also
supports software applications from companies such as Microsoft and Slate
for mobile fax and receive, contact management, scheduling and organizing,
personal information management, document notation, hand-drawn graphics
and note-taking.

The Convertible 486 utilizes both a keyboard and a pen, and is designed to
accept input in three different ways: I) from the keyboard, when used as a
conventional notebook computer; 2) from a pen, as an intuitive mouse-like
pointing device when the unit is in conventional notebook mode; and 3)
from both the keyboard and pen interchangeably within the same
application, a feature unique to this type of pen-enabled notebook design.
By folding the screen down over the keyboard, the user can quickly and
easily convert the unit from a state-of-the-art notebook computer into a
state-of-the-art pen tablet computer.

The Convertible 486 is a 25 MHz Intel486 SL notebook computer that comes
standard with a backlit VGA screen for easy readability in all lighting
conditions; four megabytes of system RAM, expandable to 12 megabytes; a
rugged, warranted for life DuraShell magnesium case; and a choice of a
125MB or a ruggedized 200MB hard disk drive. Like the original
Convertible, the Convertible 486 has a PCMCIA version 2.0 compatible
expansion slot with Socket Services software, and comes with an easily
attached 3.5" 1.44 megabyte floppy drive. The unit, which measures
11.5"x9.5"x2.0", weighs 6.0 pounds.

The GRiD Convertible 486 also supports the PenRight! DOS-based pen
operating environment and the PenRight! Pro graphical environment tool kit
for building custom pen applications.

The original Intel386 SL-based GRiD Convertible has been hailed as an
innovation since its introduction in November of 1992, and has received
numerous awards from computer industry trade publications, including
InfoWorld, PC Laptop, and Computer Reseller News. The Convertible has been
called the best mobile computer on the market, partly because the hybrid
keyboard and pen approach allows for a Greater degree of portability than
any notebook system to date. For example, when the computer is used as a
tablet the user can operate the system while standing up (unlike a
notebook computer). This added convenience is beneficial to mobile
executives needing access to their data at any moment.

The Convertible 486 will be available in July starting at $2699 through
GRiD's direct 800 telephone number 1-800-934-GRiD (4743). It also will be
offered directly to corporate and government customers through the GRiD
field sales force. Notebook products carry a one-year carry-in or mail-in
service warranty through any of the 24 U.S. GRiD authorized service
centers. The DuraShell magnesium casing carries a lifetime warranty.

GRiD Systems designs, markets, and services desktop, laptop, notebook, pen
and multimedia computers and pen-based software development tools. GRiD is
located at 7 Village Circle, Westlake, Texas. GRiD's products are marketed
worldwide by GRiD, GRiD Europe, and by authorized GRiD distributors and
resellers.

GRiD Systems Corp
7 Village Circle, Westlake, TX 76262
PO Box 612706, D/FW Airport, TX 75261
817-491-5200;  fax: 817-491-5952

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