Caleb Technology Announces MSL Agreement.BOULDER, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 15, 1999-- Caleb Technology announced today that Manufacturers Services Ltd. (MSL See multiple single-level. ), the world's eighth-largest electronics manufacturing services Electronic manufacturing services (EMS) is term used for companies that design, test, manufacture, distribute and provide return/repair services for electronic component and assemblies for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). provider, has agreed to become a soft contract manufacturer to produce Caleb Technology drives. Initially, MSL will install manufacturing and testing equipment in order to provide 1.5 million drives to Caleb Technology per year. The drives will be assembled at the MSL production facility in Singapore. Initial products from MSL are expected to ship January 2000. Jay Cho, Vice President of Business Development for Caleb Technology stated: "I am very pleased with the quality commitment we have received from MSL. This new alliance will ultimately help us meet the needs of our market demands." Johnny Chan, President of MSL Asia, noted, "We have been building the electronic portion of high capacity floppy 1. (programming, tool) Floppy - A Fortran coding convention checker. A later version can generate HTML. See also Flow. ffccc posted to comp.sources.misc volume 12. 2. floppy - floppy disk devices for quite some time and are excited about the opportunity to now build the entire drive." Caleb Technology was formed in 1995 to focus on a high-performance flexible disk product that is backward compatible Refers to hardware or software that is compatible with earlier versions of the product. Also called "downward compatible." Contrast with forward compatible. backward compatible - backward compatibility with the existing base of over one billion disk drives worldwide. Headquartered in Boulder, Colorado The City of Boulder (, Mountain Time Zone) is a home rule municipality located in Boulder County, Colorado, United States. Boulder is the 11th most populous city in the State of Colorado, as well as the most populous city and the county , Caleb Technology also has production partners in both Singapore and Korea. |
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