PC Card Drive Replaces Discontinued Jaz Drive.Business Editors & High-Tech Writers PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 2, 2002 Adtron Corp. now offers a PC Card drive as a replacement for the popular and recently discontinued Iomega(R) Jaz(R) Drive. The versatile Adtron 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. connected PC Card drives use hot swappable flash or disk PC Card media offering the same SCSI read/write removable media functionality as the Jaz drive. Internal 3.5-inch floppy drive bay mounted versions and external desktop versions are available. Adtron's SCSI PC Card drives operate just like Jaz drives with the added benefit of a wide selection of PC Card manufacturers, capacities, performance and prices. Compatible PC Cards include ATA flash cards up to 2GBytes from SanDisk, Hitachi, SimpleTech and others; and hard disk cards up to 5GBytes from Toshiba; and 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) microdrives with a CompactFlash-to-PC Card adapter. OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and pricing for the internal SCSI PC Card drive (SDDS-03) is $225 and the external drive (ASPC ASPC Associated Students of Pomona College (Claremont, California) ASPC American Shetland Pony Club ASPC Arizona State Prison Complex ASPC Algorithmic Statistical Process Control ASPC Attached Shuttle Payload Center ) is $195. Adtron also offers PC Card drives with VME (Virtual Machine Environment) An operating system from Fujitsu Services (formerly ICL) that runs on its Series 39 mainframes. Introduced in 1975, VME is a comprehensive product that provides a variety of utilities for datacenter operations. , cPCI, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and serial RS232 interfaces. About Adtron Corp. Adtron designs and manufactures electronic data storage systems tailored to OEM requirements for optimum reliability, durability and availability. Adtron integrates flash memory or disk storage media into configurations that match application specific form, fit and function. This flexibility solves problems associated with integrating traditional disk and tape drives into commercial, industrial and military computer systems. Solid-state flash-based storage products emulate disk and tape drive functions providing extreme durability and reliability in harsh environments, while disk-based storage products provide long-term availability, thereby eliminating requalification, last time buys and inventory management costs. The Adtron Quality System is ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 registered. You can find more information about Adtron at www.adtron.com. Jaz and Iomega are registered trademarks of Iomega Corp. |
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