FISCAL YEAR 1999, FIRST QUARTER

12/17/98   Read-Rite Shipping MR Heads for Samsung's 4.3 GB Per Platter Drive
12/16/98   Read-Rite Shipping Western Digital MR Heads for Its 4.3 GB Per Platter Desktop Program
12/14/98   Read-Rite Shipping MR Heads for Western Digital's 18.3 GB Enterprise Hard Drive Program
12/10/98   Read-Rite and Guzik Technical Enterprises Announce Dynamic Test Equipment Agreement
12/9/98   Read-Rite Appoints Stephen Melnicki Vice President of Materials
11/24/98   Read-Rite Promotes Al Climent to Vice President and General Manager of the Maxtor Business Unit
11/24/98   Read-Rite Shipping Maxtor Corporation Magnetoresistive Recording Heads Supporting 4.3 GB per Disk
11/04/98   Read-Rite Licenses Juelich GMR Technology
11/02/98   Read-Rite and Benchmark Tape Systems Announce Development Agreement
10/21/98   Read-Rite Supplying MR Recording Heads for Seagate's 3.4 GB per Disc Drive Program
10/14/98   Quantum and Read-Rite Announce Development Agreement for Super DLTTAPE-Based Products