#syquest

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[retrocompmx]

Un día como hoy (17 de noviembre) en la comútación

El 17 de noviembre de 1998, la empresa SyQuest Technology (fundada en 1982 y dedicada a la manufactura de discos duros para las PC) anuncia que se declara en bancarrota. Sus dispositivos más conocidos eran los discos removibles que, cuando aparecieron los discos ZIP, su cuota de mercado se redujo considerablemente. Fue vendida en parte a Iomega, su competidor directo en 1999, pero continúo brindando soporte técnico hasta 2003 #retrocomputingmx #syquest

[warmtwinkie]

Holy crap. SyQuest. Sigh.

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[swarmik]

SyQuest removable 44MB hard drive connected to Atari TT030 using SCSI

It is fascinating that the drive works flawlessly even with a lot of dust inside (unlike with normal hard drives, the reading head is not in a clean air environment here). This particular drive was used to transfer large files between computers in a DTP company. It is fast and reliable. On the other side its price/capacity ratio was not good in comparison with normal hard drives so it was not widely used.

[lynn-drumm]

Syquest disks. (44, 88, and 200MB)

[grrl-operator]

The Failed Zip Drive Competitor - SyQuest SparQ Unboxing & Exploration

[vignellicenter]

On Manuals Monday we shared the Corporate Identity manual for Benetton Sportsystem. Here are a selection of design process artifacts for this project, From what a “to do list” by Massimo Vignelli to the SyQuest disk containing the digital files for the manual, you can often follow a design project from conception to final production in the archives. 

You can also learn a lot about how designers worked in the past. Do you remember SyQuest disks? They held 88 MB, which was huge compared to a 3.5″ floppy disk which only held 1.44 MB. 

Benetton Sportsystem Corporate Identity sketches, printed catalogs, notes, and Syquest disk with digital files for manual, circa 1994-1996 Massimo and Lella Vignelli papers Vignelli Center for Design Studies Rochester, New York