Avatar Peripherals Shark 250 Becomes First PC Card Storage Solution in Compaq PC Card Solutions Program; Shark 250 PC Card Offers Road Warriors Removable HARDiskette Storage Expansion In A Portable Drive.MILPITAS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--September 24, 1997--Avatar An image you select or create to represent yourself to the other party in a chat or instant messaging (IM) session. An avatar is a caricature, not a realistic photo and can be a simple image or a bizarre fantasy figure. Avatar is a Sanskrit word that means the incarnation of a god on earth, and this usage of the term came from the gaming and 3D chat worlds. See VRML. Peripherals, Inc. today announced that Compaq Computer Corporation (NYSE:CPQ) has added the award-winning Shark 250(TM) PC Card Card and Socket Services Card Services and Socket Services are the drivers for PC Cards. Card Services manage hot swapping and automatically configure the system resources required by the card (IRQs, memory and I/O addresses on a PC). Card Services talk to Socket Services, which is low-level software that talks directly to the PC Card controller chip. Socket Services are built into the system BIOS. mobile hard disk drive with mini-removable media to its PC Card Solutions Program. The Shark 250 will be added to the Compaq Standard PC Card Solutions List for meeting stringent test criteria in the areas of compatibility and reliability. PC Card vendors participating in the Compaq PC Card Solutions Program play an important role by offering third party solutions to Compaq portable customers. The Shark 250 PC Card has been tested under Microsoft Windows 95(TM) on a range of Compaq portable products including the complete Armada notebook computer family. As the first PC Card removable storage product to participate in the Compaq PC Card Solutions Program, the Shark 250 PC Card meets the needs of today's demanding mobile storage requirements. The Shark 250 will provide a portable hard disk storage system for Compaq notebook users who demand high-speed, high-capacity removable storage on the go. "With the legendary quality and reliability of Compaq products -- the company that started the portable computing revolution -- we are very pleased to be able to provide the Compaq notebook user with a high-quality, removable hard disk drive storage solution that's completely portable," said Tim Caldwell, vice president of business development at Avatar Peripherals. Shark 250 PC Card The Shark 250 PC Card provides notebook users with unlimited hard disk expansion in a portable drive A disk, tape or flash memory drive that is plugged into a USB or FireWire port or a PC Card slot on a laptop. See portable hard drive and external drive. through the use of multiple HARDiskettes(TM). This drive gives the user much needed functionality, and is ideal for fast and easy backup, file sharing, expanded storage Additional memory in IBM mainframes that is not normally addressable by applications. Introduced for the 3090 series, the data are usually transferred in 4K pages from expanded storage to central storage (main memory). See hiperspace., installing additional applications and running presentations, or multimedia files. The Shark 250 mobile hard disk drive delivers 250MB of storage per HARDiskette media, that's 2.5 times the capacity of Iomega's Zip(TM) removable cartridges in a form factor that's one-third smaller and one-third the weight of the Zip drive. In a May 1997 review of the Shark 250 and the Iomega Zip drive, PC Magazine Labs found the Shark 250 to be four times faster. Unlike the Zip drive, the Shark 250 connects to the computer with a single cable connection through the PC Card slot for both power and data without requiring an external power supply. About Avatar Peripherals, Inc. Founded in November 1996, Avatar Peripherals, Inc. designs, manufactures and markets truly mobile hard-disk drives using mini-removable media. Avatar Peripherals products are available through leading computer retail stores, resellers and major distributors in the United States and Canada. As a wholly-owned company of Avatar Company Limited in Thailand, Avatar Peripherals has access to the global technical, manufacturing and financial resources of its parent company, which employs more than 350 people worldwide, and owns a large manufacturing facility in Bangkok, Thailand. Avatar Peripherals Headquarters is located at 1455 McCarthy Boulevard, Milpitas, California 95035, and can be reached at 408-321-0110. Sales information can be obtained by calling 1-888-GO-AVATAR (1-888-462-8282); customer support calls can be made to 408-953-0123. Visit Avatar's Web page at http://www.goavatar.com to learn more about the products and see the latest awards from such leading publications as boot Magazine, Imaging Magazine, PC Magazine, Windows Magazine, and Windows Sources Magazine. -0- Note to Editors: Avatar Peripherals is a registered trademark of Avatar Company Limited. Shark 250, HARDiskette, SharkSwap, and SharkEject are trademarks of Avatar Peripherals, Inc. Zip is a trademark of Iomega Corporation. All other company and product names are trademarks or registered trademarks or their respective holders. CONTACT: Candelori Communications, Inc. Eric Usher, Account Associate Tel: 650/966-1776 Email: eusher@candelori.com or Avatar Peripherals, Inc. Danya Bahous, Senior Mgr, Marketing Communications Tel: 408/953-0220 Email: dbahous@goavatar.com or Compaq Computer Corporation Nora Hahn Tel: 281/514-8316 Email: nora.hahn@compaq.com |
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