Addonics Announces FireWire -- IEEE 1394 -- Support Across Entire Portable Storage Line for PCs, Apple Macintosh or iMac Systems.Business Editors, High-Tech Writers FREMONT, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 2000 One cable for all Addonics Portable Storage Devices Addonics Technologies today announced its FireWire Storage Solution -- a IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, New York, www.ieee.org) A membership organization that includes engineers, scientists and students in electronics and allied fields. 1394A interface cable that provides fast data throughput across the entire Addonics portable storage device line, with support for both PC, Macintosh and iMac systems. One cable supports all Addonics Portable Storage Devices, which includes the Addonics 100MB PocketZIP, 120MB LS-120 Pocket SuperDisk, Pocket CD, Pocket DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , Pocket CD-RW (CD-ReWritable) The only rewritable CD technology. CD-RW disks look like other CD media, but with close inspection, they have a more polished surface with a very dark blue-gray cast. , Mobile CD-RW, Mobile UltraFloppy 1.44/144MB drive, and the Pocket ExDrive family of hard drives. The cable has a list price of $99.50. The Addonics FireWire Storage Solution provides universal drive support, which allows different Addonics storage devices to share the same bus. The cable can draw power from FireWire port of the computer to power the external storage devices, which is ideal for mobile users who need access to DVD or CDRW See CD-RW. devices while away from any PC power source. The cable includes a built in FireWire hub that enables daisy-chaining of up to 193 devices. The Addonics FireWire cable achieves a sustained Data Transfer Rate -- up to 16 Mbytes/second and also supports isochronous Time dependent. Real time voice, video and telemetry are examples of isochronous data. (communications) isochronous - /i:-sok'rn-*s/ A form of multiplexing that guarantees to provide a certain minimum data rate, as required for time-dependent data such as video or audio. data transfer. The cable is Plug-and-Play under Windows 98 SE See Windows Second Edition. , 2000 and MacOS 9.0. The new Addonics FireWire cables will be shipping in June and are available through dealers and distributors such as PC Connection, CDW, Egghead, Tech Data, and D&H. About Addonics Technologies Addonics Technologies Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets a broad line of Personal Attached Storage and Network Attached Storage products. Addonics is headquartered at 48434 Milmont Drive, Fremont, CA 94538. Visit Addonics at www.addonics.com All products/company names are either trademarks or trade names of their respective holders. |
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