23-Oct-99

Breakthrough Consumer Set Top Box Makes Long Predicted Information, Communications And Entertainment ""Convergence"" A Reality!

Inter-Con/PC, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: IPCN)in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, has announced the availability of the TOTEBOOKô 6000 Set Top Box (STB) providing the most powerful ""all-in-one"" platform for home entertainment and communications ever offered to consumers. The TOTEBOOKô 6000 allows an entire family to watch DVD, surf the Web, play the latest CD-ROM and DVD-ROM games and movies, as well as send and receive e-mail - all without leaving their couch! Everyone from a novice to the most savvy of the PC user can now use his or her TV set to access the digital world. Through Inter-Con/PC, Inc.'s revolutionary new technologies, the TOTEBOOK 6000 delivers next generation communication, computing, and entertainment at a new level of quality to either television monitors or a computer displays or both simultaneously. ""It is simple to set up, simple to use and has a suggested retail price of under $1,000.00."" said Michael Ferderer, CEO of Inter-Con/PC, Inc. ""There is nothing like it in the marketplace today."" Unlike earlier competing systems the TOTEBOOK 6000 does not require a user to pay for monthly access to an expensive proprietary network. Like most PCs the TOTEBOOK 6000 can access and dial up the Internet Service Provider (ISP) of choice or even make a broadband high-speed connection to a Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) modem via on-board ether net. Further the TOTEBOOK 6000 is a fully functioning PC capable of supporting video conferencing, multi-layer high level PC games, movies on DVD, DVD-ROM and CD-ROM based software. The TOTEBOOK 6000 uses a wireless infrared keyboard and mouse, and supports, via Universal Serial Bus (USB), the most common peripherals such as joysticks, printers, scanners, digital still cameras, digital video cameras and other devices. It is surround sound ready, and supports S-video, composite video for television sets and SVGA for monitor viewing. Ferderer also believes the TOTEBOOK 6000 will play a key role in bringing the Internet and computer based content into the classroom. ""We have finally developed the capability to allow an instructor to walk through a classroom while using a computer. The cost, simplicity and reliability the TOTEBOOK 6000 will make this system very attractive to educators"". ""We are in discussions with a number of potential partners including retail electronic chains, cable companies and others who want to market this product."" Continued Ferderer, ""We have been preparing for this moment and we are ready to show the world where the future of home computing and entertainment is going."" About Inter-Con/PC, Inc. Inter-Con/PC, Inc. is the world's premier next generation Set Top Box manufacturer. The company converges interactive multi-media technologies that can easily be used by both consumers and businesses. No other product provides the power at the price that the TOTEBOOK 6000 furnishes. The company is a publicly traded company (OTC Bulletin Board: IPCN).