Indigita Corp. Announces FireDAT, Industry's First FireWire Interface DAT Designed for the Apple Macintosh.IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1999-- Multimedia Tape Drive Optimized For Use With Real-Time Audio/Video, Graphic Images, HTML HTML in full HyperText Markup Language Markup language derived from SGML that is used to prepare hypertext documents. Relatively easy for nonprogrammers to master, HTML is the language used for documents on the World Wide Web. and Traditional Data Files Indigita Corp. Thursday announced FireDAT, the first industry standard solution spanning archiving and emerging digital audio/video applications. Apple Computer took the opportunity at MacWorld in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden to announce their new line of products. Apple, always on the edge of new technology, has announced that the new Power Mac G3 computers will be equipped with a new interface called FireWire. This serial interface will replace the traditional 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. device interface used on earlier Macs. The Indigita iDT-2800 FireDAT drive has been designed to easily connect into this new FireWire port. This high capacity, high performance tape drive is optimized for use with digital audio/video, graphic images, HTML and traditional data files -- or in applications mixing these data types. It combines the ease-of-use of rotating disk storage and the cost effectiveness of traditional tape-based peripherals. The multifunctional iDT-2800 FireDAT is the only removable storage peripheral with the features, capacity, performance and price to effectively address data storage, real-time audio/video recording and playback, Web site caching and educational applications. The FireDAT efficiently handles streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video data in real-time, and can capture and preview data without having to restore to a hard drive like other solutions. It also provides the first tape-based storage device optimized for retrieval of HTML graphics and images. At a cost of 5MB per penny, FireDAT offers an extremely low cost removable media In computer storage, removable media refers to storage media which can be removed from its reader device, conferring portability on the data it carries. A removable drive is a reader device for such media. storage for multimedia applications. The iDT-2800 operates in two modes, Digital Video Data Storage (DVDS DVDS Digital Video Distribution System DVDS Digital Video Double Sided ) for real-time audio/video applications, and DDS (1) (Digital Data Storage) See DAT. (2) (Data Dictionary System) See QuickBuild and OpenDDS. (3) (Dataphone Digital S 2 for compatibility with legacy 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. drives. The FireDAT has a 6GB native capacity, transfers data at 52MB/min., features a compact 3.5-inch, half-height form factor drive in an external enclosure and uses inexpensive industry standard DDS2 media. Indigita provides industry standard solutions spanning Mac/PC storage and emerging digital audio/video applications. The company was first to market with a series of innovative tape technology products, including DVDS multimedia drives, and tape file system software optimized for multimedia and MPEG-2 compressed digital video applications. For additional information, contact Indigita at 17320 Red Hill Ave., Ste. 200, Irvine, Calif. 92614; telephone: 949/851-6123; fax: 949/851-6136; e-mail: sales@indigita.com, or visit the company's Web site at www.Indigita.com. Indigita, FireDAT and DVDS are trademarks of Indigita Corp. Apple, Macintosh and FireWire are trademarks of Apple Computer Inc. |
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