EXHIBIT 99.1

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Contact:
Rudy Morin
Executive Vice President, Operations & Finance
415-919-2734

Stuart Pearlman
Phase Two Strategies
212-370-4940


                      NCD ADOPTS SHAREHOLDER RIGHTS PLAN


    MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA -- August 13, 1997 -- The board of directors of Network 
Computing Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: NCDI) has adopted a shareholder rights plan. 
A letter containing details of the plan will be mailed to shareholders early 
next month.

    In making the announcement, the company said that the plan would 
strengthen the board's ability to protect shareholders and other stakeholders 
against acquisitions of control without paying all shareholders a fair 
premium. NCD said that the plan is also designed to protect against coercive 
tender offers or other inadequate offers, but the company added that the plan 
is not intended to prevent an offer that its board concludes is in the best 
interests of NCD and its shareholders.

    To implement the plan, NCD's board declared a dividend of one preferred 
stock purchase right for each of the company's approximately 16.3 million 
common shares outstanding for stockholders of record Tuesday, September 2, 
1997. Each right would enable the rightholder to purchase, under certain 
circumstances, a fractional share of a newly issued series of NCD preferred 
stock.

    The rights would become exercisable, and trade independently from NCD's 
common stock, upon the public announcement of the acquisition by a person or 
group of 15% or more of NCD's common stock, or 10 days after commencement of 
a tender or exchange offer for NCD common stock that would result in the 
acquisition of 15% or more of that stock.

    The rights expire August 12, 2007, unless redeemed earlier by NCD's 
board, and can be redeemed by the board at a price of $0.01 per right at any 
time before the rights become exercisable, but only in limited circumstances 
after that time.  NCD said it had been advised by counsel that the rights 
distribution would not be taxable to shareholders.

    About NCD: Founded in 1988, Network Computing Devices, Inc. is a leader 
in the network computer industry. It provides network computer hardware and 
software that delivers simultaneous, high-performance, easy-to-manage access 
to any application on an enterprise network from any desktop.  The company's 
product lines include the Explora and HMX families of Universal Network 
Computers, the WinCenter Pro multi-user Windows NT application server 
software, and the PC-Xware software that connects PCs using MS Windows to 
UNIX hosts with a selection of terminal emulation and network connectivity 
tools. There are more than 350,000 NCD network computing installations. NCD's 
technology is also incorporated into products sold by leading manufacturers 
such as IBM, Sun and Novell. Network Computing Devices can be reached on the 
Internet at www.ncd.com.

     The forward statements in this release regarding NCD's plans and 
strategies are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private 
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that all 
forward-looking statements involve risk and uncertainties that may cause 
actual results to differ materially from expectations. Those risks and 
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, continuing acceptance of NCD's 
products, the Company's ability to develop new products, competitive pressures 
in the network computing marketplace, the Company's ability to obtain 
component parts, manage the transition to indirect channels, continued 
overall growth in the network computing market, pricing pressures, changes in 
customer requirements and product mix. Further information on factors that 
could cause actual results to differ from those anticipated is included in 
filings made by the Company from time to time with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including but not limited to, the Form 10K for the year 
ended December 31, 1996, and the form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 
1997.

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