IBM OFFERS CURRENT AT SPECIAL PRICE FOR A LIMITED TIME


     WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., May 14 . . . IBM today announced that
Current Version 1.2, a powerful personal information management
(PIM) software package, will be offered at the special price of
129.00, when ordered directly from IBM. IBM Desktop Software 
(IDS) will offer this limited time promotion through August 31,
1991. The list price of Current is 395.00.

     Customers may order Current directly from IBM, with a 
credit card, by calling the Product Information Center at
1-800-426-7699. The Product Information Center can also refer 
callers to their nearest authorized dealer. Current is also
available from IBM remarketers and software retailers, who may
have their own special terms and conditions during this 
promotion period.

     Current, introduced October 31, 1989, by IDS, runs in the
Microsoft Windows 3.0 environment of the Disk Operating System
(DOS) and is designed to help business users organize, relate 
and retrieve text and graphical data quickly and efficiently.

     Current's powerful design allows users to customize the
program for specific applications. A predefined set of
categories -- people, appointments, expenses, projects, etc.,
is included with the product.

     Current's graphical user interface allows users to display
data in a variety of familiar formats such as a color-coded
calendar, an address book, and color-coded Gantt (time line)
charts that display quick overviews of projects and tasks. In
addition, users can search for selected information from their
data as well as view and print the information in a variety of
formats.

     Current 1.2 requires an IBM Personal Computer, Personal
System/2 or tested-compatible with a 286 or faster micro
processor, a 20 megabyte (MB) hard disk and 1MB of random
access memory (RAM).

     IBM Desktop Software, based in Milford Connecticut, is a
unit of the IBM Applications Solutions Division. Its mission
is to acquire, develop and bring to market leading application
software for the personal computer.