EXABYTE ANNOUNCES NEW QUALIFIED LIBRARY RESELLER PROGRAM

Company Aims to Help Resellers Join Growing Automated Tape Library Market

ATLANTA, Ga., Sept. 12, 1994 --Resellers across the nation who want to
participate in the growing automated tape library market are being given
the opportunity to do so through a new program unveiled today by Exabyte
Corp. (NASDAQ: EXBT) at the NetWorld+Interop trade show in Atlanta.
Exabyte's first-ever Qualified Library Reseller Program is aimed at
developing a set of regional library resellers who will be authorized to
sell, support and service the company's market-leading automated tape
libraries.

Resellers selected to join the program will be authorized to purchase, from
certain distributors, high-performance Exabyte tape libraries and will
receive up-front and ongoing sales and technical support training from
Exabyte. Service training will also be available, and resellers will have
the option to sell third-party maintenance contracts. In addition, Exabyte
Qualified Library Resellers will have access to Exabyte marketing and
sales tools, and direct Exabyte sales support with qualified leads, as
well as use of the Exabyte logo for advertising purposes.

Among the criteria for a reseller to be selected for the new Exabyte
program are the sophistication level of the technology they offer, and the
existence of formal sales and service organizations. Only regional
resellers will be selected to participate in the program.

The Exabyte tape libraries currently available through the Qualified
Library Reseller Program include two new advanced models: the 70-gigabyte
to 154-gigabyte EXB-210 8mm Library, and the 560-gigabyte to 1.1-terabyte
EXB-480 8mm Library. Both models provide the benefit of Exabyte's years of
field experience in their design and include enhanced robotics, security
features and user-friendly interface controls. They also feature dual
half-high tape drives for parallel processing, fault tolerance and
improved performance. The EXB-210 and EXB-480 are modular in design (the
drives, data cartridge holders and power supply snap easily into and out
of the body of the library), allowing for easy serviceability, and have a
robust design that results in the highest level of reliability available
in the tape library market today.

The EXB-210 began shipping in April 1994; the EXB-480 will ship in
fourth-quarter 1994. Another Exabyte library, the 8mm EXB-10e, is also
part of the Qualified Reseller Program. This library contains a single
full-high 8mm tape drive and offers capacity ranging from 50 gigabytes to
100 gigabytes.

"The benefit of this new program to resellers is two-fold," said Peter D.
Behrendt, Exabyte's chairman of the board, president and chief executive
officer. "One, it enables them to become part of what is an increasingly
lucrative market. Two, resellers get direct help in selling from the
company that is the market leader in this area.

"Resellers' customers benefit as well," added Behrendt, "because they can
buy an advanced tape library product with the assurance of full support
and service."

To date, Exabyte has sold approximately 14,000 of its tape libraries
worldwide. According to industry analysis from the firm Peripheral
Strategies, Exabyte accounted for 81 percent of overall 8mm tape library
sales in 1993, making the company today's undisputed market leader.
Looking at the growth potential of the tape library market, Peripheral
Strategies estimates that end users will spend up to $3 billion on tape
libraries between 1993 and 1997.

Resellers interested in becoming an Exabyte Qualified Library Reseller are
asked to contact the company at 1-800-EXABYTE for more information.

Headquartered in Boulder, Colo., Exabyte Corp. designs, manufactures and
markets a full range of tape storage products: 8mm, 4mm and quarter-inch
minicartridge tape drives, tape libraries and recording media. Exabyte is
the world's largest independent manufacturer focused solely on tape
storage products, which it ships through a network of original equipment
manufacturers, value-added resellers and distributors.

Exabyte Corp
1685 38th St
Boulder, CO 80301
303-442-4333, fax 303-447-7170

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