Tecmar's New Ditto Max Professional 10GB Tape Drive Is Now Shipping; Follows Recent Acquisition of Ditto Product Line From Iomega.LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 1999-- Tecmar Technologies Inc. (OSE OSE - Open Systems Environment SMB (1) (Small to Medium-sized Business) Also called "SME" (small to medium-sized enterprise), it refers to companies that are larger than the small office/home office (SOHO), but not huge. :TTI TTI Texas Transportation Institute TTI Thoracic Trauma Index TTI Transmission Time Interval TTI Travel Time Index TTI Travel Technology Initiative TTI Technology Transfer Initiative TTI Traffic and Traveller Information TTI Technology Transfer Institute ) (www.tecmar.com) announced that it is now shipping its Ditto Max Professional(R) 10GB tape drive to reseller channels. The new drive features "One-Button" backup, copy and restore -- and it can store up to 10GB of compressed data or 5GB native. Tecmar acquired the Ditto(R) product line from Iomega earlier this year. "Tecmar's version of the 10GB Ditto Max Professional will be our initial entry into the U.S. consumer market. This is a milestone for us, and we expect this product to be highly successful," said Ernest Wassmann, Tecmar's president and chief executive officer. "Although Iomega's 10GB Ditto drive A family of QIC-based backup tape drives originally from Iomega. The earlier Easy 800 and Easy 3200 were Travan TR1 and TR3 drives with 400MB and 1.6GB native capacity. The subsequent 2GB and 3. was widely accepted in Europe, nothing larger than 7GB was sold in the U.S. Tecmar's Ditto Max Professional outperforms all previous Ditto tape drives. Anyone who can click a mouse button can back up data with this drive." The Ditto Max Professional features Ditto Tools software, a more robust application than the software used in Iomega's 10GB drive. Ditto Tools allows users to click on a "One-Button" icon to back up, copy or restore files. In addition, the Ditto Max Professional will ship with Tecmar's Fullback(TM) system-recovery software; just two diskettes created with Ditto Tools will restore valuable data in the event of a hard-disk crash. Tecmar's Flash!File(TM) technology allows Ditto Max users to drag and drop A graphical user interface (GUI) capability that lets you perform operations by moving the icon of an object with the mouse into another window or onto another icon. For example, files can be copied or moved by dragging them from one folder to another. frequently used files to a special 125MB area. Files stored in this area can be accessed very quickly: the average access time is five seconds. The internal Ditto Max Professional 10GB drive is priced at $199 MSRP MSRP Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price MSRP Message Session Relay Protocol MSRP Multi-Species Recovery Plan (US Fish & Wildlife Service) MSRP Member of the Society for Radiological Protection (UK) and comes with Ditto Tools software (in five languages), DOS software, a Ditto DASH DX accelerator card and a cable. The external version is priced at $249 MSRP and includes Ditto Tools software, a parallel port cable and a power supply. Both drives are compatible with Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows 3.1, NT 4.0 Workstation and DOS 5.X software. Both drives are also compatible with the 3GB, 5GB, 7GB and 10GB Ditto Max cartridges, and come with a two-year limited product warranty and are Y2K compliant Capable of correctly processing any data that deals with a date beyond the year 1999. See Y2K problem. . Tecmar Technologies is a leading provider of high-performance tape-storage solutions for the network-storage environment, and offers a wide range of tape storage systems, media and libraries. Tecmar recently acquired the Ditto(TM) product line from Iomega. With headquarters in Longmont, the company has sales offices in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , Singapore and the United Kingdom. Its products are sold worldwide through OEMs, computer system resellers and retailers. TTI is publicly traded on the SMB list of the Oslo Stock Exchange Oslo Stock Exchange An exchange founded in 1819 and trading stocks, bonds, and stock options that is considered the options market of Norway. . Tecmar's address is 1900 Pike Road, Bldg. E, Longmont, Colo. Phones are 800/890-1425 or 303/682-3700. Web site is www.tecmar.com. Fax is 303/776-1698. NOTE TO EDITORS: Iomega will no longer sell Ditto products as of June 16, 1999, per its contractual agreement with Tecmar. |
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