Olympus announces price reductions on all 2.6GB optical storage drives.MELVILLE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 7, 1997-- Fastest 2.6GB optical storage drive priced at $1,769 Olympus America Inc., Digital & Imaging Systems Group, announced today an across the board $200 price reduction of the PowerMO(TM) 2600 line of optical drives. The fastest optical storage drive available on the market, The PowerMO 2600 is a 5.25-inch 2.6 gigabyte One billion bytes. Also GB, Gbyte and G-byte. See giga and space/time. (unit) gigabyte - 2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 megabytes. Roughly the amount of data required to encode a human gene sequence (including all the redundant codons). See prefix. rewritable Refers to storage media that can be re-recorded many times. Contrast with write once. See magnetic disk, magnetic tape and rewritable optical disc. optical solution that runs at 3600 rpm; with an effective seek time of 13msec, a data transfer rate up to 6MB per second, and a 4MB memory buffer. Pricing for the PowerMO 2600/VAR is $1,769, PowerMO 2600/SCSI is $1,799, and the PowerMO 2600/SUN-SOL for the Sun Solaris computer is $2,099. The PowerMO 2600 is geared towards high-end graphic design, pre-press, document imaging, multimedia, and high-volume network applications. Based on Olympus' own MOS (1) (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) See MOSFET. (2) (Mean Opinion Score) The quality of a digitized voice line. It is a subjective measurement that is derived entirely by people listening to the calls and scoring the results from 540E mechanism, the PowerMO 2600 is multi-functional to handle both rewritable and WORM (write-once-read-many) media. The drive also includes Olympus' exclusive ECA ECA See: Export Credit Agency (TM) (Enhanced Cache Algorithm), which when combined with the 4MB memory buffer significantly improves burst transfer rates. "Not only does the PowerMO 2600 offer twice the capacity and nearly twice the transfer rate, it also maintains backward-compatibility with earlier MO products at a low-cost," said Dave Veilleux, Olympus America Inc. director of marketing - digital products. "The PowerMO 2600 line protects past investments in 5.25" rewritable MO storage by maintaining compatibility with 1.3GB and 650MB media -- a feature not supported by all competing products." The PowerMO 2600 is available immediately for Mac, PC, or Sun Solaris. It comes with one rewritable 2.6GB cartridge, 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. cable and driver/formatter software. Extra cartridges are approximately $90 each. It supports an SCSI-2 interface and incorporates built-in switchable active SCSI termination The end of a SCSI chain, which must be identified by placing a resistor module in the open port. See SCSI. and an SCSI diagnostic LED. The PowerMO 2600 is available through Olympus resellers, including MacWarehouse, MicroWarehouse, Mac Zone, PrePress Direct and others. It is also available to resellers through distributors, including Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. , and Tech Data, Optical Laser, Datalink, and others. Olympus extends a two-year warranty for the PowerMO 2600. For more information, contact Olympus America Inc., Digital & Imaging Systems Group, Two Corporate Center Dr., Melville, NY 11747-3157, ph: 516/844-5000 (800) 347-4027, fax: 516/844-5262 or Olympus Web Site: http://www.olympus.com . -0- Olympus America, Digital & Imaging Systems Group (DISG DISG DDN Intersite Gateway ) is a division of Olympus Optical Company Ltd. of Japan, the worldwide manufacturer of cameras, microscopes, endoscopes, Microcassette(TM) recorders, clinical analyzers, and environmentally-friendly cleaning chemicals and systems. Olympus DISG is a leading developer of award-winning image capture/image viewing/image storage devices with its digital cameras, high-volume network printers and optical based data storage products. Brand names and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective companies. 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