Micropolis (company)

Micropolis was a hard disk manufacturers from California / USA. With its establishment in 1976 5.25- inch floppy drives and controllers were initially made ​​, later hard drives with SCSI and ESDI port.

Micropolis was able to quadruple the capacity of the then customary standards of Shugart Associates, by a doubling of both the track density (track density of 48 TPI to 96 TPI Tracks Per Inch ) as well as the recording density (track recording) was able to achieve. The initially friendly marketing 100 TPI were soon reduced to 96 TPI, since this was backwards compatible with the 48 TPI standard and Shugart chose well for 96 TPI.

Micropolis began the hard drive production with 8- inch drives according to Seagate ( Seagate was founded by Alan Shugart after the sale of Shugart Associates), followed later by 5 -inch drives.

By market adjustments in the 1980s and 1990s, where many hard drive manufacturers had to stop their production or sale to other companies, and finally the hard disk drive business of Micropolis at Singapore Technologies (now Temasek Holdings) sold, which reused the trademark. Then Micropolis was reorganized as a stream Logic Corporation, which went bankrupt in 1997. The storage subsystem RADEON survived and is now marketed by RAIDION Systems division of Peripheral Technology Group. The Videon - Video-On- Demand technology has been sold to Sumitomo Corporation.

In the reorganization to Stream Logic also the company Hammer Storage Solutions, which (a small Macintosh storage suppliers) emerged from the acquisition of the hardware division of FWB Software originated. These shares were sold in 2000 at Bell Micro Products.

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