Data storage devices, both desktop and portable, continued to push the envelope on capacity and speed with the introduction of new products at PC Expo, held here in June. A new DVD-RAM chive, the LFDLO3U, was introduced by Secaucus, N.J.-based Pan Data storage...
ROY, Utah--BUSINESS WIRE--June 6, 1995--Iomega Corp. Tuesday introduced a new industry standard for desktop computer storage with the announcement of an internal version of its popular Zip drive that uses interchangeable 100- and 25-megabyte Zip disks to provide up to 70 times the capacity of traditional floppy disks with performance...
SUNNYVALE, Calif. and MOSES LAKE, Wash.--BUSINESS WIRE--Dec. 7, 1998--Providing iMacTM consumers with a space-saving floppy alternative, Mitsubishi Electronics America Inc. and Winstation Systems Corporation today announced the family-friendly USB SuperDiskTM drive. The USB SuperDisk drive, which will be sold under the Winstation name, is designed to sit vertically on even...
LAS VEGAS--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 13, 1995--Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc. TAEC Monday announced the development of a unique data storage device called Solid State Floppy Disk Card SSFDC at Fall COMDEX '95 held here this week.
Apple's Time Machine, a way-cool device designed to be a simple backup device for your gleaming new Apple computer, is appropriately named, in my experience. That's because installing one reminded me of hours if not days wasted installing my first floppy disk drive to a Commodore 64....
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 May 2007-bellwetherreport.com: Shareholders alert for Imation CorpC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:22052007 Shareholders alert for Imation Corp (NYSE:IMN) Imation Corp. engages in the development, manufacture, sourcing, marketing, and distribution of removable data storage media products and accessories...
M2 PRESSWIRE-23 April 2007-bellwetherreport.com: Exploring the Future Trends of Iomega Corp.C1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23042007 Hoping to put a little zip back into its step, Iomega has adopted a slash-and-burn strategy. The company has sold more than 50 million units of...
PORTABLE DATA STORAGE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ISSUE WITH COMPUTER USERS. Perhaps the earliest forms of 'portable' data storage were Hollerith punched cards. These were not only relatively fragile, but were definitely low data density and not particularly portable in quantity. This was followed by punched...
DUBLIN, Ireland -- Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c52846) has announced the addition of "Computer Storage Device Manufacturing Industry in the U.S. and its Foreign Trade (1996-2008)" to their offering. This industry report focuses upon the Computer Storage Device Manufacturing industry. This U.S. industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing...
NEW YORK -- The dizzying pace of developments in consumer electronics is reflected in the latest sales patterns of blank electronic media. A scant decade ago the floppy disk was still the dominant form of portable data storage for personal computers. Now, as a result of their limited...
A new patent filed by Warner Bros has implications for all digital photographers. It is for a triple layer CD, DVD, HD-DVD writer. If, like many photographers, there is a big collection of image files stored on CDs, it is worth remembering that their security is only as good as...
by Maury Wright, Editor in Chief Random access and convenient media made floppies the media of choice in microcomputers. Before the floppy disk arrived, computer users had severely limited options for removable-storage peripherals. Paper tape found...
ARC-645-S is a 4U rackmount industrial computer chassis from AAEON Systems Inc. mainly designed for system integrators or users who require large storage capability using half-size card applications. It offers a front panel 3.5 in. disk drive bay of floppy drives and seven front panel 5.25...
NEW YORK -- The number of consumers working from home offices has been growing over the past several years, boosting consumer demand for high-capacity media to store data and back up computer files. New technology, in the form of high-capacity optical media--CD and DVD products--continues to come on...
We focus so heavily on the bigger issues surrounding technology in libraries that we sometimes overlook the importance of the little things that make our patrons' lives easier. To wit--every library that offers public computer access sooner or later faces the question: "Where can people keep...
When Richard Masters worries about how much digital information is lost to posterity every day, he thinks back to 1972. That year Landsat began transmitting a steady stream of infrared images of Earth, giving scientists their first clear view of how the planet's surface changes over time. NASA stored the...
Byline: Patrick White and Michael Hastings When Richard Masters worries about how much digital information is lost to posterity every day, he thinks back to 1972. That year Landsat began transmitting a steady stream of infrared images of Earth, giving scientists their first...
IN ONE OF his less prescient moments, Bill Gates one let slip that he thought nobody would need a storage capacity larger than a floppy disk--and that's an old school 660k floppy, not the barrier busting 1.44Mb monster that's now virtually extinct as well. ...
China discovers the virtues of intellectual property A COURT case involving counterfeits and China is nothing new--except this time, it is the Chinese company that is doing the suing. In February Netac, a company based in Shenzhen, took PNY Technologies of New Jersey...
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