Thanks, boogaloo. Keying off your cut and paste I checked the patent server for Cartesian Data and found # 5,521,774 that references patents from IBM, Censtor, Iomega, Tandberg and Ampex (5,047,883 and 5,166,850). It should be interesting to watch this upstart challenge the established flash memory players like Intel and Quantum in a market expected to grow to $1.0 billion by 2000.
Speaking of upstarts, Dennis Hollars has a bunch of patents including at least one patent from his stint at Conner Peripherals (now part of Seagate) and Uri Cohen has a bunch of patents, including one from Stanford and one from Seagate. These Velocidata guys sound like well- established disk drive veterans, just like the folks from Read Rite and AMD at Cartesian Data.
As for Ampex, these are the patents issued so far in 1997:
1] 5,602,704 Composite metal and ferrite head transducer and manufacturing method
2] 5,602,686 Magnetic tape resident volume format table for data recording system
3] 5,592,599 Video special effects system with graphical operator interface
2/11/97, 2/11/97 and 1/7/97 issue dates respectively. |
