Eden Prairie, Mn., August 3, 2000 Rorke Data, Inc., a leader in Fibre Channel SAN and data storage solutions for the healthcare industry, announced today that Konica Medical Imaging will feature Rorkes storage libraries, including its AIT technology, as the primary archive product for the companys NetStar PACs solution.

Randy Mattingly, Senior  Product Manager at Konica, said Rorke's libraries are an ideal fit with Konica's Phased Approach to medical imaging solutions.  "Rorke's storage libraries round  out our hardware requirements for our long-term archiving needs," said Mattingly. "Not only does Rorke supply quality products, but they emphasize  system and solution integration, which means extra value for Konica Medical  Imaging customers."

Konic's NetStar Image Management solutions offers a  phased implementation approach towards PACS: Print Management upgrades  existing diagnostic modalities and laser imagers to network compatibility; Remote Access forwards studies to on-call radiologists and transmits studies from satellite clinics to main radiology departments; Clinical Access distributes studies to selected points of care where they are displayed for review; and Diagnostic Access adds Diagnostic Workstations and Image Archives for radiologists to interpret and  store studies digitally.

Offered as a component of Konica's NetStar  system, Konica¹s Archival Solutions are targeted towards customers who manage  large, data-intensive, digital file environments.  Rorke¹s series of scalable  storage libraries has been designed for the image-intensive, high-bandwidth  storage requirements required in specific cardiology applications.  The new RTL  (AIT)  library systems offer increased capacity, high reliability, very low  cost/MB and in addition, can now be configured with Fibre Channel connectivity for future implementation into a cutting-edge SAN environment.

"Rorke Data is very excited to be working with Konica," said Joe Rorke, VP Marketing, "especially since their NetStar and archival solutions are a perfect match for our data storage solutions, which were specifically designed for high capacity/high bandwidth applications such as medical imaging."

By incorporating Sony¹s AIT2 tape drive technology with additional tape drives and tape cartridges, the RTL Series of libraries has a capacity range of 250GB to  over 18TB of non-compressed data storage.  Offering true in-the-field expandability, the RTL Series is available in configurations with as few as 10  cartridges and a single AIT drive to systems with over 360 cartridges and up to 12 drives.

Konica Medical Imaging, Inc., a subsidiary of  Konica Corporation, is a leading domestic manufacturer of digital and traditional imaging products for diagnostic use by hospitals, imaging centers, clinics and private practice physicians.  Leading products include digital imaging management systems, laser imagers, film processors, film-handling equipment, medical imaging, and laser films.

Rorke Data is a full digital storage solutions provider with expertise in Fibre Channel RAID, SAN, DVD, tape and optical libraries, Unix, NT and Mac environments, high bandwidth networks, digital asset and document management, and engineering and maintenance  services.  Founded in 1985, Rorke Data is a privately held Minnesota corporation.  Together with its European subsidiary, Rorke Data Europe, located in Emmen, The Netherlands, the company is composed of six divisions: Medical  Archive Applications, Audio/Video, Prepress, Imaging, Document Management, Engineering and Installation Services.  More information about Rorke Data can be  found at www.rorke.com.  Rorke Data is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Bell  Microproducts, Inc. (Nasdaq: BELM).