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System Industries, Inc., [1] [2] [3] was an American computer hardware company active from 1968 to 1993. It produced printers and disk drives for minicomputers. [4]
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System Industries, Inc., [1] [2] [3] was an American computer hardware company active from 1968 to 1993. It produced printers and disk drives for minicomputers. [4]
The firm was founded in 1968 [1] by Ed Zschau [4] with backing from Brentwood Associates, a private equity firm. [5] Corporate earnings were followed by The New York Times. [6] [7] Their focus was to be a third-party provider of DEC-compatible equipment, especially for printers and disk drives (and their controllers). [8]
In 1992 they acquired Emulex's disk drive business. [9] By 1993 System Industries was dealing with a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. [10] That same year they introduced an eraseable optical disc product and an 8mm magnetic tape storage devices. [11]
System Industries was one of 19 manufacturers of disk drive products that were sued in the late 1980s and early 1990s by Digital Equipment Corporation for alleged patent violations. [12] Individual settlements were reached. [13]
System Industries had a subsidiary named Silonics, [14] [15] which made ink-jet printers. [16] [17] By 1980, [14] System Industries found it more profitable to focus on its disk business. [18]
System Industries developed a capability for having more than one DEC CPU, but not at the same time, have write access to a shared disk. They implemented an enhancement called SIMACS (SImultaneous Machine ACceSs), [19] [20] which allowed their special disk controller to set a semaphore flag for disk access, allowing multiple WRITES to the same files; the disk is shared by multiple DEC systems. SIMACS existed on VAX and PDP-11 RSTS systems.
It's "80 Mbytes of storage for under $12K!" ad was considered noteworthy by Computerworld , which in 2007, 2012 and 2017 headlined "... And other ad favorites," "... And other IT ad favorites," and "10 fun tech ads through the years." [21] [22] [23] A CIO magazine "looking-back" item also noted the aforementioned ad headline.
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System Industries, a computer data storage equipment manufacturer
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