AdvanSys ABP925 SCSI Adapter for Retail Market Brings Low Cost Connectivity to Scanners, Other Slower Peripherals; ABP925 Shipping Now.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 9, 1998--For everyone in the market for a host bus adapter See host adapter. for their Fast and 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. peripherals, Advanced System Products Inc. (AdvanSys) brings the ABP 1. (networking) ABP - Alternating bit protocol. 2. ABP - Microsoft Address Book Provider. 925 to market. This special low cost SCSI host bus adapter is equivalent to the Adaptec AHA2920C. Retail customers looking to expand and upgrade their systems, as well as VARs and integrators are seen as the target market. The ABP925 is a four layer board that boasts an AdvanSys SCSI controller chip and has a 50-pin H/D, external connector and a 50-pin internal connector. Bench marks show the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. usage of this PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). host adapter to be extremely low, thus boosting overall system performance. Seven devices can be connected with the ABP925. The adapter is plug-and-play, making installation simple. There are no jumpers or switches to set. The ABP925 supports all major operating systems including Windows for Workgroups A version of Windows 3.1 introduced in 1992 that added peer-to-peer networking. See Windows. (operating system) Windows for Workgroups - (WFW, WFWG) A version of Windows 3.1 which works with a network. Although stand-alone 3. , Win 95 and 98, Win NT, Win 3.1 and DOS. The ABP925 is designed to attach inexpensive, external devices at minimum cost. "We designed this inexpensive device to be aggressively competitive in the retail market," said Charles Roome, director of product marketing for AdvanSys. "This new host bus adapter makes fully functional SCSI capability available to every computer user who is looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a way to extend his computer and add peripherals. Combined with our SuperSCSI software, SCSI installation and use is easily within everyone's grasp." Product Feature Highlights -0-
-- Fast SCSI data transfer
-- Plug-and-Play design
-- Device connectivity with any combination of two SCSI-1 or SCSI-2
devices
-- True multi-tasking SCSI bus master
-- 8-bit, 10 MHz SCSI controller
-- High performance scatter/gather
-- Compatible with all types of host systems
-- Highest quality built in ISO-9002 facilities
-- Technical support by phone and World Wide Web
-- 50 pin H/D external and internal connectors
-- SuperSCSI installation software for Windows 95 and 98
-0- Price and Availability The AdvanSys SCSI ABP925 with SuperSCSI is available now for a suggested retail price of $79. Customers and resellers can contact AdvanSys at: 800/525-7443, or 408/383-9400. About AdvanSys Advanced Systems Products Inc. (AdvanSys) designs, manufactures and markets SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) host adapters, software and integrated circuits. The heart of its SCSI products is the company's cost effective RISC processor. The processor optimizes computer system performance by reducing and/or eliminating CPU cycles otherwise employed in data transfers between system memory and SCSI devices. The AdvanSys ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. and PCI host adapters are fully compatible with Plug and Play standards, run under DOS, Microsoft Windows, Windows NT, Windows 95 and 98, Novell NetWare, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) OS/2, Apple System OS and a variety of UNIX operating systems. The northern California based company sells its products worldwide to resellers, system and PC integrators, and original equipment manufacturers. Visit AdvanSys on the World Wide Web at http://www.advansys.com. Note to Editors: AdvanSCSI is a trademark of Advanced Systems Products Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries. All other trademarks and product names are registered to their respective companies.
CONTACT: AdvanSys, San Jose
Charles Roome, 408/383-5711
croome@advansys.com
or
The Lekas Group
Joyce Lekas, 650/948-8907
lekas@aol.com
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