The Rise and Fall of SyQuest, the Storage Pioneer That Lost the Removable-Drive War to Iomega
In 1992, executives at SyQuest Technologies in Fremont, California, were shown a new removable disc technology developed by Fuji. It used a flexible magnetic medium instead of a rigid hard disk platter. It was slower and lower in capacity, but it was dramatically cheaper to manufacture and far simpler for a consumer to use. SyQuest’s … Read more