18 Oct
2015
18 Oct
'15
8:39 p.m.
On 10/18/2015 08:00 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
IBM occupied a large segment of the market and was a
favorite target for lots of followers. If you just
observe the passage of Memorex through the history of
acquisitions and being acquired and sold, it's truly
amazing that Memorex still exists--as a brand of Imation.
As 3rd party vendors in
the IBM plug-compatible arena went,
Memorex was pretty large. We had an IBM shop at Washington
University, but after the CPUs, practically the whole room
went to Memorex-supported gear. They get 3330-compatible
drives, later upgraded to 3350-compatible, and maybe later
upgraded again. They used Memorex 3674 controllers (they
had 2 of them). They had at least one Memorex 1270 com
controller. They had two 370/145s with AMS/Intersil 1 Meg
memory units, installed and supported by Memorex. I can't
recall specifics, but I think there were other memorex units
there, too.
Jon