Read-Rite Corporation 44100 Osgood Road Fremont, California 94539 Investor Relations 888-377-7378 Tollfree 510-683-7534 Fax   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE READ-RITE CORPORATION TO PRESENT AT ROBERTSON STEPHENS TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE FREMONT, CA � February 21, 2002 � Read-Rite Corporation (Nasdaq: RDRT) today announced that Alan S. Lowe, president and chief executive officer, is scheduled to speak at the upcoming Robertson Stephens Technology Conference taking place February 25th � 28th at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.  The company will be presenting on February 26th at 1:30 p.m. PST (4:30 p.m. EST).    A live web cast of the presentation can be accessed via the internet. Read-Rite Corporation is one of the world's leading independent manufacturers of magnetic recording heads, head gimbal assemblies (HGAs) and head stack assemblies (HSAs) for disk drives and tape drives. The company is headquartered in Fremont, California and has operations in California, Thailand, the Philippines, Japan, Singapore and South Korea. The company's website is located at http://www.readrite.com. Read-Rite is also the majority shareholder of Scion Photonics, Inc., an integrated solution provider to the fiber optics industry whose offerings include advanced DWDM products, fiber optic assembly equipment and application specific photonic components. Scion's website is located at http://www.scionphotonics.com.   Last Updated: December 2012 ©2012 Read-Rite Corporation. All rights reserved.