FWB Bundles Aladdin Desktop Tools Overseas

Free with International FWB HammerDisk Optical SyQuest Drives and Hammer-PE
Hard Disk Drives

Menlo Park, CA - August 7, 1995 - FWB, Inc., manufacturer of the Hammer
brand of high performance mass storage products, today announced a bundle
agreement with Aladdin Systems, Inc. Select FWB drives sold overseas will
include a full version of Aladdin Desktop Tools--an $89.95 value for
free.

"FWB's goal has always been to maximize the productivity of Macintosh
users. We achieve that by providing the fastest and highest quality
storage sub-systems available. Our hardware/software solutions combine
ease-of-use with high throughput and fast access times", commented Fred
Swan, FWB's Senior Product Marketing Manager. "We believe that Aladdin
Desktop Tools is an excellent complement to these storage solutions. The
package allows users to get the most out of their storage devices by
optimizing Finder file copy speeds, copying files in the background within
the Finder, and queuing multiple files or folders for copying. It used to
be that archiving a large file to an MO or SyQuest cartridge tied up the
entire computer. That's no longer the case."

Aladdin Desktop Tools is a new package of Mac OS 7.0 enhancements that
speed up and streamline your work on the desktop. The following are
Aladdin Desktop Tools product features:

* Desktop SpeedBoost - Background file copying. Work while files are being
duplicated!

* Desktop Viewer - View the contents of files from the Finder without
opening (or even owning) the application that created the file. Supports
text, PICT, JPEG, sound files, StuffIt archives, and XTND translators.

* Desktop Shortcut - A new menu inside every application's Open and Save
dialog box; find files fast and navigate instantly to often-used folders;
walk inside a StuffIt archive as if it were a regular folder; and more.

* Desktop Magic Tools - Powerful commands in a new Finder menu. Includes
copy and move files without opening windows; view files' contents quickly;
get more info than the Finder normally provides; and more.

* Desktop Makeover - Assign keyboard shortcuts to Finder commands; link
documents whose parent application is not available to other applications
that can open them.

* Desktop Printer - Print or fax by dragging and dropping documents to
printer or fax modem icons on the desktop. QuickDraw GX not required.

* Desktop Secure Delete - Delete confidential files so that they cannot be
retrieved from the trash, even using special recovery utilities.

"With products such as Stuffit Deluxe and Stuffit Spacesaver, Aladdin
Systems has built a reputation for shipping utility software which is
extremely innovative while being valuable to a very broad base of users,"
said Jon Kahn, director of sales and marketing at Aladdin Systems.
"Aladdin Desktop Tools continues that tradition by providing something for
everyone, from desktop printer selection to convenient keyboard shortcuts
to time savings of up to 35% during file copies in the Finder. Aladdin is
pleased to be working with FWB on this bundle because the timesaving
features of our software and their tremendous drive performance complement
each other very well."

The specific international drive models with which Aladdin Desktop Tools
will be bundled are as follows:

hammerDisk-PE 230 Magneto-Optical Drives
hammerDisk 230 Magneto-Optical Drives
hammerDisk 1300HH Magneto-Optical Drives
hammerDisk 1300FMF Magneto-Optical Drives
hammerDisk-PE 88c SyQuest Drives
hammerDisk-PE 200 SyQuest Drives
hammerDisk-PE 250 SyQuest Drives
hammerDisk-PE 520 Hard Disk Drives
hammerDisk-PE 820 Hard Disk Drives
hammerDisk-PE 1000 Hard Disk Drives

The bundle will last from August 7, 1995 through November 15, 1995 and is
not applicable to drives shipped to resellers within the United States.

All FWB software and hardware product are fully compatible with Macintosh,
Power Macintosh with PCI and Mac OS Compatible computers.

Since 1984, FWB, Inc. has been developing mass storage and backup products
specifically for the Macintosh platform, including the Apple PowerBook,
the Apple Workgroup Servers, Power Macintosh, Power Macintosh with PCI,
and all Mac OS Compatible. FWB products include SledgeHammer Disk Arrays,
Hammer, Hammer-PE, PocketHammer and HammerPB hard drives; HammerDisk
magneto optical removable drives; HammerTape, HammerDAT and HammerDLT tape
backup systems; and the SCSI JackHammer accelerator boards for PCI and
NuBus. FWB also publishes RAID ToolKit, Hard Disk ToolKit, Hard Disk
ToolKit-Personal Edition disk management software, and CD-ROM 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
AOL: FWBINC
AppleLink: FWB
CIS: 71320,1034
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