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CENTENNIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. ANNOUNCES THE INTRODUCTION OF SIX NEW PRODUCTS.


BILLERICA, MASS.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--JULY 31, 1995--CENTENNIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC inc - /ink/ increment, i.e. increase by one. Especially used by assembly programmers, as many assembly languages have an "inc" mnemonic.

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. (AMEX AMEX

See: American Stock Exchange
: CTN ctn
abbr.
cotangent
, CTNW) announces the introduction of six new products to its existing product offerings.

According to Mr. Levy, President and COO of CENTENNIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC., "CENTENNIAL's strategy is to continuously research and develop new PC Card solutions which address current emerging market requirements and anticipate future product requirements. CENTENNIAL's new products, which are currently available, will increase our penetration through the retail channel, as well as enhance our OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and  opportunities."

Following is a brief description of each of the product offerings released today:

FLASH RAM SIMM

FLASH RAM SIMM (Single In-Line Memory Modules) in 4MB and 8MB designs have been completed and are presently being shipped by the Company. The FLASH RAM SIMM utilizes Intel's new embedded FLASH RAM ICs that combine the high-speed reliability of DRAMs with the non-volatile capabilities of rewriteable FLASH.

These modules reduce board space, system cost, and are primarily manufactured for embedded applications requiring a high performance, cost effective alternative to storing files in ROMS ROMS Russian Multimedia and Internet Society
ROMS Regional Ocean Model System
ROMS Reactor Operations Monitoring System
ROMS Rated Officer Monitoring System
ROMS Remote Ocean-Surface Measuring Sensor
 or disks and downloading them into DRAM for operation.

MICRODRIVE 260MB

The MICRODRIVE 260MB PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card.  Hard Drive offers high data storage capacity in a PCMCIA Type III package. This edition of CENTENNIAL's MICRODRIVES provides a consistent media to data back-up, transportability and file organization within the desktop, notebook and hand-held computer arenas, as well as provides OEM's with a solution to integrate various computing devices. This hard drive allows users to perform high speed back-up, increase existing storage capacity, provide total transportability and enhance the security of information across multiple platforms.

MICRO-ZIP, The Data Compression-HardDrive Combo

CENTENNIAL's MICRO-ZIP combines the technologies found in CENTENNIAL's MICRODRIVE 260MB hard drive and EAZIZIP(TM) data compression software to increase total storage capacity as high as 520MB, while providing data security through password protection. The MICRO-ZIP is a secure way to back-up, compress/decompress and archive programs and data utilizing a simple to use Windows drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another.  interface.

GESSAPac for WINDOWS VERSION 2.0

CENTENNIAL is currently offering GESSAPac for WINDOWS VERSION 2.0. This version includes NMEA NMEA National Marine Electronics Association
NMEA National Marine Educators Association
NMEA National Marketing Educators Association
NMEA New Millennium Experience Company
 viewer and an automatic link to Microsoft's Automap(TM). GESSAPac is the interface solution that displays the positioning information acquired through CENTENNIAL's GPS products in the Windows environment.

20MB FLASH-Series 2

CENTENNIAL is now manufacturing and shipping what it believes to be one of the highest capacity SERIES 2 FLASH cards available in the market today. The new 20MB FLASH card utilizes AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips.  and Intel chip sets within its overall design.

DRAM-CAPACITY MORE THAN DOUBLES

CENTENNIAL's DRAM (88 pin) cards are now available in 16MB and 32MB capacities. These cards conform to JEIDA (Japanese Electronic Industry Development Association) A Japanese trade and standards organization. JEIDA joined with PCMCIA to standardize the PC card in 1991. The PC card specifications JEIDA 4.1 and PCMCIA 2.0 are the same.  standards are offered in both parity and non-parity versions for 3.3 volt and 5 volt systems are compatible with Toshiba, IBM and Fujitsu portable computers.

CENTENNIAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. designs, manufactures and markets innovative, quality built, PCMCIA PC Cards and solutions for use in portable computers and industrial applications. These products enhance the utility of portable computers and electronic equipment by adding additional memory, data/fax capabilities, emulation, multimedia, security, data acquisition, global positioning and more.

CONTACT: JACK MCDONALD, VP SALES (508)670-0646

LEONARDO ZANGANI, PR (908)788-9660
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