H.Co. Computer Products Inc. Adds New Product Line to Distribution; Seagate and Western Digital Hard Drives.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 1998--H.Co. Computer Products Inc. Tuesday announced that they will be adding a complete line of Seagate and Western Digital 3.5-inch IDE and 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. hard drives to their existing line of computer memory and storage solutions. Mark Hojreh, H.Co.'s vice president, commented on the new product line: "Though our forte has always been computer memory manufacturing (RAM products, such as DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module and SIMM modules), the majority of our reseller customers have expressed a need for us to provide a wider array of `core' computer components. "Our existing resources will allow us to provide our customers with a complete line of standard IDE and SCSI hard drives, while including the value added Value Added The enhancement a company gives its product or service before offering the product to customers. Notes: This can either increase the products price or value. technical support that our customers have come to rely on. "The basic specifications, parameters and other technical information for Seagate and Western Digital drives are readily available for our customers (and prospects) to peruse pe·ruse tr.v. pe·rused, pe·rus·ing, pe·rus·es To read or examine, typically with great care. [Middle English perusen, to use up : Latin per-, per- via our H.E.L.P. guide (H.Co.'s Electronic Library of Products) which is accessible via the Internet at www.hco.com." H.Co. is targeting resellers, retailers, VARs and select GSA (1) (Global mobile Suppliers Association, Sawbridgeworth, U.K., www.gsacom.com) A membership organization of suppliers of GSM products and services. Its goal is to promote GSM as the worldwide mobile communications standard. See GSM Association and GSM. accounts with the new product line addition. H.Co. is advertising the new product line launch via press, Internet, direct mail and other internal marketing programs. They are also planning to include the product line in periodicals targeting medium to large sized computer resellers. About H.Co. Computer Products Inc. H.Co. Computer Products was founded in 1987 by Mark, Bill and Sye Hojreh at the ages of 21, 20 and 19, respectively. With headquarters in the heart of "Southern California's Silicon Valley" -- e.g., Irvine -- H.Co. is among Orange County's first memory manufacturers and currently grosses more than $40,000,000 in annual sales, including revenues from their European Sales Office based in Hannover, Germany. H.Co. designs, manufactures and sells memory for all major computer platforms. Their product line includes other computer products, such as StarPoint Computer Laptop Batteries, PCMCIA Cards (PC Cards), Perfect Pix Digital Camera Film See memory card. , and Phoenix Drives (proprietary removable hard drives for Toshiba, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) , Canon and NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. laptops). H.Co. is planning to add a host of other new product lines this year, some of which H.Co. is developing and manufacturing internally. CONTACT: H.Co. Computer Products Inc., Irvine Gary Richardson, 714/833-3222, ext. 153 Fax: 714/833-3389 E-mail: grichardson@hco.com |
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