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Stac Electronics
Joanne Rush (619) 431-7474

Jennings & Company
Gregory Spector (415) 349-8400 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Stac Launches Rescue Mission for DoubleSpace Users

CARLSBAD, Calif., May 10, 1993 * Stac Electronics (NASDAQ:STAC), the leading
supplier of high performance data compression, today announced a Special
Edition of Stacker 3.1 for Windows & DOS. The program is designed to help
users of MS-DOS 6.0 (TM) avoid a variety of problems, including loss of data,
that have been attributed to the new operating system's DoubleSpace
compression utility.

"With the growing number of reports of the possible problems that users could
encounter with DoubleSpace, we felt we had no alternative but to put together
a rescue mission to go to the aid of those 2 million or more MS DOS 6.0 (TM)
users before its too late," said John Bromhead, Stac's director of marketing.
"We have developed technology that can almost instantaneously retrofit all the
benefits of the Stacker File System to a DoubleSpace drive and hopefully
preserve both the user's data and the good name and reputation of the data
compression industry."

The Special Edition installs the latest version of Stac's award-winning
compression software, Stacker 3.1, on systems running MS-DOS 6.0 (TM), and
within minutes automatically updates the DoubleSpace drive to include the
proven safety features of the Stacker file system. All new files written to
the updated DoubleSpace drive will then utilize the proven Stacker LZS
compression technology. Users also have the option to fully convert their
existing Doublespace drives to use Stacker LZS compression and realize even
larger disk capacity.

Scheduled to begin shipping in June, the Special Edition will be available
through retail channels for the suggested promotional price of $49.95 through
August 31 and for $99.95 after that.

Stacker 3.1 --- the most recent addition to the Stacker line of data
compression products for DOS, Windows, Macintosh(TM) and OS/2(TM) computers
--- is based on Stac's patented LZS_, which is relied upon daily by more than
4 million users worldwide.

Stacker 3.1 Special Edition is for MS-DOS 6.0 only. The program seamlessly
integrates the Stacker LZS_ compression technology into MS-DOS 6.0 by taking
advantage of special operating system features. As a result, Stacker drivers
are transparently loaded before CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. This
eliminates any risk of accidental deletion by the user and allows all standard
DOS commands, such as DIR and CHKDSK, to work directly on Stacker drives.

In addition to its superior compression and performance over DoubleSpace,
Stacker 3.1 Special Edition also provides the additional Windows functionality
and disk optimization features that have made Stacker for Windows and DOS, the
No. 1 selling utility, according to PC/Computing, April, 1993. These features,
which evolved over three generations of product development in response to
user needs, include:

o The Windows Stackometer_: Graphical gauges that allow Windows users to
monitor disk capacity, compression ratio and fragmentation levels
continuously, in real time.

o Flexible Setup: Express Setup installs Stacker with a few keystrokes or
mouse-clicks; Custom Setup allows users to tailor Stacker for optimal system
performance.

o Compression Tuning: Allows users to optimize their systems for maximum
speed (on older, slower computers) or maximum compression ratio (on newer,
faster systems).

o Stacker Anywhere_: Allows users to read and write to any removable media on
any PC, even one where Stacker is not installed.

o Stacker Automount_: Makes Stacker removables immediately available for use.

o Two-gigabyte drives: up to 1G drives, yielding 2G Stacker drives.

o Stacker Optimizer_: data quickly; offers a visual representation of process.

o Stacker AutoProtect_: Detects disk errors dynamically and at boot time and
immediately protects your Stacker volume.

o Stacker AutoRecovery_: Automatically repairs errors on the disk.

o Stacker Security_: Password-protects Stacker drives for read-only or
read/write access.

o The Company Stac Electronics is the leading supplier of high performance
data compression products for personal computers. Implemented in software
and silicon, Stac's products are sold direct from the company and through
retail and OEM sales distribution channels worldwide.