Apple CD-RW Drives Now Supported by Retrospect Backup.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers ORINDA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 5, 2001 Dantz Development Corporation today announced that Retrospect(R) Backup 4.3 now supports most internal Apple 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. drives shipped in Macintosh G4, iMac, and iBook computers. Support for the internal CD-RW drives was made possible by Apple and Dantz together using Shared Device Access Protocol (SDAP SDAP Service Départemental de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine SDAP Sociaal-Democratische Arbeiders Partij (Dutch: social democratic workers party) SDAP Special Duty Assignment Pay SDAP Soap and Detergent Association of the Philippines ), the industry standard method for arbitrating access to storage devices in the Macintosh OS. The recently released Mac OS 9.2.1 update includes Apple's SDAP Authoring Support extension, which allows SDAP-compliant control of Apple hardware. A free Retrospect Extensions Updater for Retrospect Backup 4.3 provides additional SDAP support. Additional information on SDAP may be found at www.sdap.hoot.to. "The Shared Device Access Protocol was created to allow software applications to share CD-RW devices," said Pat Lee, product marketing manager at Dantz. "Without SDAP, users would have to restart their Macs with a different extension set each time they wanted to use their CD-RW drive with a different program. SDAP solves the problem of CD-RW application and driver compatibility." "Including the SDAP Authoring Support extension in the Mac OS 9.2.1 update is another example of Apple's excellent support for developers," said Richard Zulch, Dantz's CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "They provided the foundation necessary for us to support their drives and achieve peaceful coexistence Peaceful coexistence was a theory developed during the Cold War among Communist states that they could peacefully coexist with capitalist states. This was in contrast to theories, such as those implied by some interpretations of antagonistic contradiction, that Communism and between Retrospect Backup and other CD-writable software." Availability The necessary updates are available immediately from Apple and Dantz. Apple's new SDAP Authoring Support extension is included in the Mac OS 9.2.1 update and may be downloaded from www.apple.com. Dantz's Retrospect Driver Update 2.2 and Retrospect Extensions Updater for Retrospect 4.3 are both required and free downloads from the Dantz website, www.dantz.com. Localized language versions are available. Supported Hardware The following drive mechanisms are now supported: G4 CD-RW Drives Sony CRX CRX Civic Renaissance Model X (Honda automobile model) CRX Cone-Rod Homeobox-Containing Gene CRX Civic Renaissance Experimental (Honda) 140E Matsushita (Matshita) CW-7586 iBook CD-RW Drives Sony CRX700E Toshiba SD-R SD-R Signal Degrade-Ring 2002 iMac CD-RW Drive Matsushita (Matshita) CW-7121 Dantz expects to soon announce support for the Apple SuperDrive (DVD-R/CD-RW) and the new CD-RW drives that began shipping in the new Macintosh models Following is a brief summary of the current models in Apple's Macintosh family, all of which use Intel CPU chips. For a list of some of the earliest Macs by model number, see Macintosh models - early. announced at Macworld Expo in July. About Retrospect Retrospect Backup employs progressive backups, known as IncrementalPLUS(TM), a new-and-changed-files method of backup that provides increased efficiency and precise restores. Other innovations include a patented automation technology that assigns backup priority to systems on the fly, protecting notebooks automatically whenever they connect to the network. About Dantz Dantz Development, a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation headquartered in Orinda, California “Orinda” redirects here. For other uses, see Orinda (disambiguation). Orinda is a city in Contra Costa County, California, United States. The population was 17,599 at the 2000 census. Orinda is a well-known community in the San Francisco Bay Area. , has been innovating backup software See backup program. (tool, software) backup software - Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. technologies for more than 15 years. Dantz's patented technologies provide small and medium businesses affordable backup software with proven reliability unavailable in other backup products. Dantz products are distributed and supported worldwide. Additional information is available on the Dantz website, www.dantz.com. Dantz is located at 4 Orinda Way, Building C, Orinda, CA 94563 and may be contacted by phone at 800/225-4880 or 925/253-3000. Note to Editors: Retrospect is a registered trademark and IncrementalPLUS is a trademark of Dantz Development Corporation. All product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners. |
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