Conner offers OS/2 Warp support for 4 Gigabyte SCSI/IDE minicartridge tape drives.COSTA MESA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 7, 1995--Conner Tape Products Group, a division of Conner Peripherals Inc., (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CNR), today announced the availability of three new high performance tape backup solution packages for OS/2 Warp users. These one-inch high, 3.5-inch minicartridge tape systems offer 4GB of compressed capacity with a data transfer rate of 27MB per minute. Supporting both 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. and IDE interfaces in the OS/2 market, Conner's internal CTM CTM Continuum (gaming) CTM Community Trade Mark (Europe) CTM Cisco Transport Manager CTM Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico (Spanish: Confederation of Mexican Workers) 3200 SCSI, CTM4000 IDE, and external CTM3200E drives are now available with the comprehensive, easy-to-use features of Computer Data Strategies' Back Again/2 backup and recovery software. "We are pleased to offer users of Conner's minicartridge tape drives a complementary high performance hardware and software solution for the IBM OS/2 Warp environment," said Rich Peters, senior director of marketing for Conner's Tape Products Group. "Unlike low-end floppy interface tape products, these solutions are ideally suited for the performance and storage-intensive requirements of high-end standalone computers, workstations or small networks in the OS/2 market." Back Again/2, designed exclusively for systems running OS/2, features an intuitive graphical interface, a built-in scheduler, a stand-alone restore facility, password protection, and "drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. " file selection flexibility. The new Conner tape systems back up and restore HPFS (High Performance File System) The file system introduced with OS/2 Version 1.2 that handles large disks (2TB volumes; 2GB files) and long file names (256 bytes). It coexists with the existing FAT system. HPFS - High Performance File System , FAT files and EAs, as well as LAN Server and NetWare file servers. Conner's family of high performance minicartridge tape drives have been designed to use Sony QIC-Wide media and provide reliable, high capacity data storage on a single low-cost cartridge, making these drives the most cost-effective backup solution on the market today. Pricing and Availability The CTM3200R (internal SCSI), CTM3200E (external SCSI), and CTM4000R (internal IDE) OS/2-bundled solutions are currently available to distributors, VARs and system integrators. MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) for the internal configurations of both SCSI and IDE is $399, and $499 for the external SCSI. Each configuration includes the Conner minicartridge tape drive, Back Again/2 OS/2 application software, tape, and an installation guide. Users requiring technical support can call 800/5-CONNER for SCSI and IDE products. Based in Costa Mesa, Calif., the Conner Tape Products Group, formerly Archive Corp., offers a complete line of digital audio tape See DAT. (storage, music) Digital Audio Tape - (DAT) A format for storing music on magnetic tape, developed in the mid-1980s by Sony and Philips. As digital music was popularized by compact discs, the need for a digital recording format for the consumer existed. (DAT (1) (Dynamic Address Translator) A hardware circuit that converts a virtual memory address into a real address. See also DAT file. (2) (Digital Audio Tape) A magnetic tape technology used for backing up data. ), minicartridge and data cartridge products for DOS, OS/2, Windows, UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). and NetWare systems, plus DEC, IBM, Apple, Sun and other platforms. The group sells through the Conner worldwide sales force to qualified OEMs, system integrators, distributors, resellers, retailers and mass merchandisers. Founded in 1986, Conner sells, designs and builds a comprehensive line of information storage solutions, including disk drives, tape drives, storage management software and disk array storage systems products, for a wide range of computer applications. Conner's World Wide Web home page is http://www.conner.com. -0- Note to Editors: All products mentioned are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. CONTACT: Conner Tape Products Pattie Adams, 408/456-3129 pattie.adams@conner.com or Miller/Shandwick Technologies Leslie Furuta, 310/822-4669 |
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