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Quantum countersues in Imation tape spat
News Legal challenges are inflaming the otherwise staid tape backup industry, with Quantum filing a countersuit on Wednesday accusing Imation of misappropriating trade secrets. In the lawsuit, filed in California Superior Court in Santa Clara County...
[October 4, 2001, 10:15]
SuperDisks to supercede Zips
News Imation saw a good thing happening here. The Imation (3M Innovations) people created a drive that not only reads and writes to old-fashioned floppies, but also to their 120MB SuperDisk diskettes. Luckily, the people at Imation never listened to me...
[October 28, 1999, 7:18]
7Gb MO could make DVD-RAM redundant
News Fujitsu, Philips, Sony, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, Olympus, and Imation are among AS MO supporters for the specification, which is expected to be finalised in August or September before being transferred to a standards body.
[February 20, 1997, 10:21]
Five years ago: 7Gb MO could make DVD-RAM redundant
News Fujitsu, Philips, Sony, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, Olympus, and Imation are among AS MO supporters for the specification, which is expected to be finalised in August or September before being transferred to a standards body.
[February 17, 2002, 6:01]
Pocket size media for support staff
News Wallet-sized CD-R media is available from several vendors, including Imation, Octave, and Ritek. This media is available from several vendors, including Imation, TEAC, and Memorex. Fortunately, you can minimise this inconvenience with a little...
[May 3, 2002, 18:07]
Quotes of the Week, February 17-21
News Imation's Lance Quantrill on 120Mb floppy drives. Rusty Rosenberger of Imation on DVD-RAM. "The pent-up demand is huge and the companies who can make the drives will make a fortune. Symantec's] Norton Utilities is like having a set of very powerful...
[February 21, 1997, 15:52]
Firms facing data storage mountain
News George Purrio, European technical manager for Imation, said that it was feasible that storage requirements by 2010 will have reached yottabytes, the technical term for one trillion terabytes. In the shorter term, Imation expects to be able to...
[April 5, 2000, 7:10]
Won't burn beyond 2X
Member Review I've tried many brands of media (including Imation, Maxell) and have never managed to achieve a 4X burn (I have the latest firmware, this didn't help) interested to hear if someone else has managed a 4X burn.oldworlde@paradise.net.nz
[May 6, 2004, 23:14]
Cristie joins SuperDisk 120Mb floppy crew
News Gloucestershire, UK-based Cristie will offer external parallel port and internal drives, joining SuperDisk backers such as Imation, MKE, OR Technology and Compaq. Not only does [SuperDisk] provide high-capacity removable storage, unlike other...
[August 22, 1997, 10:38]
Comdex Fall: 130Mb drives fail to surface
News While Imation, OR Technology and several others showed 120Mb 'SuperDisk' alternatives to the standard floppy, the 130Mb contender first mooted by rivals at Comdex Fall 1996 seems to have ducked out of view.
[November 18, 1997, 10:17]
MO standard to get multi-gigabyte revamp
News Vendors including Fujitsu, Phillips, Sony, Hitachi, Sharp, Sanyo, Olympus, and Imation will announce backing for the technology, called AS (Advanced Storage) MO or MO 7, in August or September, according to sources.
[February 17, 1997, 15:44]
3M sees Travan death rumours as exaggerated
News "I'm surprised they're saying that," said Mark Nicholson, product manager for tape technologies at Imation, the recently spun-off 3M storage division. Their Ditto 800 and 3200 are Travan drives. This looks like a line filler to me.
[September 5, 1996, 10:06]
Five years ago: 120MB floppy gets mobile
News The LS-120 is already being shipped with some Compaq PC configurations, and 3M's Imation spin-off and Matsushita divison MKE are among those building products based on the specification. Leading the scrap is ten-month-old OR Technology, an amalgam...
[September 25, 2001, 8:00]
A Year Ago Today: 120Mb floppy gets mobile
News The LS-120 is already being shipped with some Compaq PC configurations, and 3M's Imation spin-off and Matsushita divison MKE are among those building products based on the specification. The 120Mb floppy camp is fighting back against the Iomega Zip...
[September 25, 1997, 8:00]
IBM's 'transformable' ThinkPad 570 debuts
News The transformable notebook has as an option the UltraBase, which latches onto the bottom of the notebook and accommodates ThinkPad 600 bay devices ranging from DVD-ROMs and Imation SuperDisk LS-120 drives to additional hard-disk drives, Iomega ZIP...
[April 20, 1999, 7:59]
120Mb floppy camp ready to head off Zip
News The pent-up demand is huge and the companies who can make the drives will make a fortune," said Lance Quantrill, UK communications manager for Imation. Inside the last fortnight both Siemens Nixdorf and Fujitsu ICL said they will build LS-120...
[February 18, 1997, 16:30]
Five years ago: 120Mb floppy camp ready to head off Zip
News The pent-up demand is huge and the companies who can make the drives will make a fortune," said Lance Quantrill, UK communications manager for Imation. First published 18 February, 1997 Inside the last fortnight both Siemens Nixdorf and Fujitsu ICL...
[February 14, 2002, 6:01]
Navicat for MySQL
Downloads NTT DoCoMo (Japan), Hitachi (Japan), Imation, Lexmark, Cisco Systems, RSA Security, Avis (Europe), U.S. Navicat is an ideal solution for MySQL administration and development. This is an all-inclusive mysql front end provides a powerful graphical...
[November 23, 2009, 4:54]
CD replacement burns out
News The first products based on the DataPlay format -- a portable music player made by iRiver and blank discs from recordable media specialist Imation -- appeared on the market earlier this year. Start-up DataPlay, which hoped its 50p coin-sized...
[October 16, 2002, 8:47]
120Mb floppy drive notebooks set for CeBit
News Dalton also believes that there is plenty of room for lower prices in the 120Mb floppy media camp: "We're putting a lot of pressure on Imation to bring the price down. Maker of the FD-2120A slimline drive OR Technology expects product availability...
[March 4, 1997, 11:36]
