The Small Computer Company, Inc.
41 Saw Mill River Rd., Hawthorne, N.Y. 10532 (914) 769-3160
40 West Ridgewood Avenue, Ridgewood, NJ 07450


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            SMALL COMPUTER COMPANY ANNOUNCES FILEPRo FoR
                            IBM AIX/370

       Mainframe Access with filePro Available for First Time


Hawthorne, New York; Jan. 23 -- The Small Computer Company, Inc.,
developers of fllePro, the Data Base Management System and Application
Development Environment, announced that filePro is now available for
IBM's AIX/370 operating system. filePro can now access an IBM 370's
resources running AIX through an IBM network utilizing PS/2's and RT's.

This latest edition of filePro follows recent ports that the company
made of filePro into ULTRIX, VMS and SUN OS operating systems. filePro
also runs in UNIX/XENIX, DOS, OS/2 and Netbios-compatible network
operating systems.

"This new operating system version, coupled with other powerful new
features that we recently added, further solidifiesfilePrors position
as one of the leading 4GL environments for departmental workgroups and
small- to medium-sized businesses," said Marc Koppelman, vice
president of sales and marketing, The Small Computer Company. ""This
new port of filePro is a direct result of our end-users' requests and
is designed to broadenfilePro's base in the market."

The Small Computer Company has a user-base of more than 350,000 users
worldwide.

The major benefits of filePro for users in IBM AIX/370 include: speed
in developing applications and retrieving information, transfer and
portability capabilities, productivity. filePro is one of the only
systems in the market that enables the complete porting of both
applications and data without modification across all of the operating
systems on which it runs.

The Small Computer Company, located in Hawthome, New York, is a
privately-owned software developer. Established in 1977, it is best
known as the developers of Profile, a DBMS for Tandy/Radio Shack and
as the developers of filePro. The success of Profile made The Small
Computer Company the largest supplier of DBMS systems to Tandy/Radio
shack.