Micropolis
Micropolis was a hard drive manufacturer from California / USA. When it was founded in 1976, 5.25-inch floppy drives and controllers were initially produced, later hard drives with SCSI and ESDI connections.
Micropolis was able to quadruple the capacity of the standard from Shugart Associates at that time by doubling both the track density (track density from 48 TPI to 96 TPI = Tracks Per Inch) and the recording density (track recording) . The initially marketing-friendly 100 TPI were soon reduced to 96 TPI, as this was backwards compatible with the 48 TPI standard and Shugart also opted for 96 TPI.
Micropolis began hard drive production with 8-inch drives and thus oriented itself towards Seagate (Seagate was founded by Alan Shugart after the sale of Shugart Associates ), later 3.5-inch drives followed.
Revenues for the second quarter of 1992 were $ 104.3 million.
Due to the market shake-outs in the 1980s and 1990s, in which many hard drive manufacturers had to stop their production or sell to other companies, the hard drive division of Micropolis was finally sold to Singapore Technologies (now Temasek Holdings ), which continues to exploit the trademark rights. Thereafter Micropolis was reorganized as StreamLogic Corporation, which went bankrupt in 1997. The RADEON storage subsystem survived and is now sold by the RAIDION Systems division of Peripheral Technology Group . The VIDEON video on demand technology was sold to Sumitomo Corporation .
With the reorganization to StreamLogic, the company Hammer Storage Solutions emerged, which emerged from the acquisition of the hardware division of FWB Software (a small Macintosh storage supplier). These shares were sold to Bell Microproducts in 2000 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Regional Earnings: Micropolis Corp. Posts Sharp Earnings Increase , Los Angeles Times , July 14, 1992
- ↑ 325 Laid-Off Micropolis Workers Sue for More Pay , Los Angeles Times , December 20, 1997