Adaptec Unleashes PC Power with Hot New Connection Cards for Cool New Peripherals; One Card Connects Up To Seven Peripherals.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 1997--Adaptec, Inc. has announced a new line of products that will give small office/home office See SOHO. (SOHO Soho (sōhō`, sə–), district of Westminster, London, England, known for its continental restaurants. Once a fashionable quarter, it became popular among writers and artists in the 19th cent. ) PC users far simpler connections to high-performance storage and graphics peripherals such as Jaz, Zip, recordable CD, high-performance CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). and hard disk drives, and scanners. One card, installed one time, gives users access to as many as seven of the coolest peripherals on the market. Small business managers increasingly need sophisticated graphics, sound, and video and other powerful effects in their work. Peripherals that create these effects and the storage devices to accommodate them all must be connected to the computer, and therein lies the challenge. Each peripheral can require separate installation. Each can take up valuable space in the computer. Such limitations often make it difficult and even impossible to attach additional peripherals to the computer. With the Adaptec product, SOHO users need to install and configure only one card to which they can connect up to seven best-of-class peripherals. This approach saves time, money, and frustration while allowing users to boost the usefulness and performance of their computers. "Hard disk and floppy drives are no longer enough. New peripheral products offering fast access to graphics; unlimited, inexpensive storage capacity; and portability make it easy to enhance the performance and usefulness of the small office computer," said Faye Pairman, vice president and general manager of Adaptec's Distribution Products Group. "Affordable peripheral prices and the need for storage flexibility are making these products fly off the shelf. And Adaptec connects up to seven of them with a single card, a single slot and a single installation." About the Products The company's new SOHO products feature easy to install SCSI SCSI in full Small Computer System Interface Once common standard for connecting peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, etc.) to small and medium-sized computers. SCSI has given way to faster standards, such as Firewire and USB. (Small Computer System Interface) cards providing up to six times the performance of the parallel port. These cards include simple installation guides and users' manuals, with instructions tailored for the technology novice. New product packaging makes it easier to select the right SCSI card for a user's particular application. Connection cables are included in the packages, and are color-coded for "plug and play" installation. Additionally, customers of the products receive free technical support for two years. Adaptec offers SCSI cards for ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. , PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , and PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. (or PC Card) buses designed for use with Windows 95, Windows 3.1, and DOS operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . The manufacturer's suggested retail prices (MSRPs) start at $59.99. The cards come with Adaptec's EZ-SCSI software, which makes installation and configuration simple, and provides powerful utilities to maximize peripheral performance. The flagship SCSI cards at the higher end Coordinates: For other places with the same name, see Billinge. Higher End or Billinge Higher End is a district of the Metropolitan Borough of Wigan, in Greater Manchester, England. of the price-performance spectrum (with MRSPs starting at $149.99) also include Adaptec's award-winning Easy CD Creator Adaptec Easy CD Creator is a CD authoring program bundled with many early CD writers. It was part of a suite often just known as Adaptec Easy CD Creator, which consisted of:
Retail Availability Adaptec's SOHO products are available at Best Buy, CompUSA, Computer City, Egghead, Fry's Electronics Fry's Electronics is a specialty retailer of software, consumer electronics, computer hardware and household appliances with a chain of superstores headquartered in Silicon Valley. Starting with one store located in Sunnyvale, California, USA, the chain now boasts sales of $2. , and MicroCenter. About Adaptec Adaptec provides bandwidth management Controlling the traffic flow in a network. See bandwidth manager. technologies for organizations building the global information infrastructure. Its high performance I/O (Input/Output) The transfer of data between the CPU and a peripheral device. Every transfer is an output from one device and an input to another. See PC input/output. I/O - Input/Output , connectivity, and network products are incorporated into the systems and products of major computer and peripheral manufacturers. Founded in 1981 and headquartered in Milpitas, Calif., Adaptec (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADPT ADPT Automated Data Processing/Telecommunications ADPT Adaptec Corporation (stock symbol) ADPT Adaptive Prediction ADPT Auger Depth Profiling Technique ADPT Automated Data Processing Telecommunications ADPT Adapter ) employs 3,500 people worldwide in design, manufacturing, sales, service and distribution. Adaptec's home page is http://www.adaptec.com . -0-
Editorial Addendum: Adaptec SCSI Card Product Details Chart
Model Description Bus Type Ideal For Speed
1505 SCSI Card ISA External SCSI Zip drives 10MB/sec
or scanners
2902 SCSI Card PCI External SCSI CD-ROM 10MB/sec
drives, Zip drives, or
scanners
1520 SCSI Card ISA SCSI CD-R, CD-ROM, 10MB/sec
removable, or hard disk
drives
2930 UltraSCSI PCI SCSI CD-R, DVD, removable 20MB/sec
Card or hard disk drives
2940 Ultra Wide PCI SCSI hard drives or 40MB/sec
SCSI Card removable drives
1450 SlimSCSI PC Card Zip and other removable 10MB/sec
drives
1460 SlimSCSI PC Card Hard drives, CD-R drives, 10MB/sec
scanners and CD-ROM drives
Model Number of Software Included Cable Included MSRP
Connectable ($US)
Devices
1505 7 EZ-SCSI Lite and DB25 to DB25 59.99
SCSI Select external SCSI
cable
2902 7 EZ-SCSI Lite DB25 to DB25 69.99
external SCSI
cable
1520 7 EZ-SCSI and Easy 50-pin internal 149.99
CD Creator SCSI cable
2930 7 EZ-SCSI and Easy 50-pin internal 189.99
CD Creator SCSI cable
2940 15 EZ-SCSI and Easy 50-pin internal 339.99
CD Creator SCSI cable,
68-pin internal
SCSI cable,
68-pin to 50-pin
external adapter
1450 3 None PC Card with 119.99
permanently
attached cable &
50-pin high
density to DB 25
connector
1460 3 EZ-SCSI CardWizard Two detachable 119.99
Pro cables (SCSI-1
and SCSI-2
connectors)
with free DB
25-pin cable
option
CONTACT: Adaptec, Inc., Milpitas Eric Brown Eric Brown is the name of several people:
ebrown@corp.adaptec.com Christina Bruno Scharrenberg, 408/957-4546 cbruno@corp.adaptec.com |
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