Fountain of Youth Discovered at Georgens.SAN DIEGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 9, 1999-- Over 30 billion dollars worth of magnetic tape Sequential Medium The major drawback of tape is its sequential format. Locating a specific record requires reading every record in front of it or searching for markers that identify predefined partitions. Although most tapes are used for archiving rather than routine updating, some drives allow rewriting in place if the byte count does not change. drive data storage equipment is approaching retirement age, end-of-life. Producers and users of these data storage products now have a daunting task. Producers must support this equipment with a five-year inventory on parts, and users must start again with a new product. For both, the idea of another major investment presents a sizable impact to the corporate budget. Solution? Georgens Industries is the premier company in the United States that redesigns older tape drive A physical unit that holds, reads and writes the magnetic tape. See magnetic tape. products, designing out the obsolete and low inventory parts. This translates to an additional decade or more of life for these aging products. By upgrading the internal design while maintaining the original function, both the producer and the user can confidently turn over care and support with continued manufacturing to Georgens. OEMs can maintain focus on their new and updated data storage solutions by letting Georgens provide long-term support and repair for the older product. And end-users rejoice as Georgens' manufacturing expertise eliminates the purchase of large, last-buy inventories for an obsolete product. This extremely technical art of magnetic tape drive (storage) magnetic tape drive - (Or "tape drive") A peripheral device that reads and writes magnetic tape. redesign, manufacture, and repair has nearly two decades of Georgens' experience supporting it. With accounts that spell the Fortune 500 check list, Georgens pioneered product redesign and end-of-life support for the magnetic tape drive data storage market. Georgens' highly skilled workforce, with over twenty years of experience, creates an internal facelift An earlier font scaler for Windows and WordPerfect from Bitstream Inc., Cambridge, MA (www.bitstream.com) that provided on-the-fly font scaling for Bitstream's own Speedo fonts. FaceLift for Windows also supported Type 1 fonts. FaceLift for WordPerfect let users create a wide variety of custom fonts for the DOS version of WordPerfect. that gives years of extra life to the tape drives they manufacture and support. Georgens works both directly with the customer and partners with the OEM. When product is shipped from Georgens, customers are assured of on-time delivery and no "out of box" defects. And Georgens guarantees no impact on form, fit, or function. A detailed listing of company capabilities is available on-line, including engineering queries, at www.georgens.com. Georgens Industries, an ISO 9002-certified manufacturer, was established in 1985 by Hal Georgens, and is a privately held company. |
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