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                                 Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: 

Fletcher Chamberlin 
Investor Relations Counsel
Harris Massey Herinckx
(503) 295-1922

DANIEL MEUB NAMED PRESIDENT AND C.E.O. OF ADAPTIVE SOLUTIONS

Beaverton, OR - November 25, 1996 -- Adaptive Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:ADSO)
today announced that is board of directors has named Daniel J. Meub president,
chief executive officer and a director of the company.  Meub replaces Dan
Hammerstrom, the company founder who has been interim chief executive officer.

"We are very pleased that Dan has signed on with Adaptive," said C. Scott
Gibson, chairman of the board of Adaptive Solutions.  "His software industry
experience, including knowledge of the optical character recognition business,
will be invaluable as Adaptive proceeds with its focus on providing more
complete forms and label processing solutions for its customers.  He has the
general management, marketing and technical understanding, as well as the
leadership skills we require."

Mr. Meub joins Adaptive with an extensive career in the management of high
technology companies.  Most recently he was the Executive Vice President of
Marketing and Product Development at Now Software, Inc. of Portland, Oregon. 
He has held positions of Vice President of Marketing and Product Development at
Calera Recognition Systems of Sunnyvale, California and Vice President/General
Manager and Vice President of Corporate Marketing at Central Point Software.

Meub holds a B.A. degree from Stanford University and an M.B.A. from the
Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

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"Adaptive has been a strong technology company for years.  Their recent
progress and strategic partnerships in the label and forms processing market
shows focus on a business segment and not just technology." said Meub.  "I'm
looking forward to applying my general management, software development, and
marketing background to helping them address these hot market opportunities."

Adaptive Solutions, headquartered in Beaverton, Oregon, pioneered data parallel
processing for advanced pattern recognition, image processing and ICR
applications.  Adaptive Solutions designs and manufactures forms and label
processing products using the CNAPS architecture for the transportation
markets.  The company was founded in 1988, had 1995 sales of $10.7 million and
has 30 employees.