SyQuest Technology
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SyQuest Technology, Inc., now known as SYQT, Inc., was an early entrant into the removable hard disk market for personal computers. For many years SyQuest held the market, particularly as a method of transferring large desktop publisher documents to printers. SyQuest aim their products to give personal computer users "endless" hard drive space for data-intensive applications like desktop publishing, Internet information management, pre-press, multimedia, audio, video, digital photography, fast backup, data exchange, archiving, confidential data security and easy portability for the road.
In the years since 1995 they have not fared as well in the market, while Iomega cornered the Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) market. Over the period 1995 to 1997 sales declined resulting in a series of losses. In the first quarter of 1997 these losses had been reduced to $6.8 million with net revenues increasing to $48.3 million. This compares to a net loss of $33.8 million, or $2.98 per share, on net revenues of $78.7 million for the same period the year before.
Syquest filed for bankruptcy in late 1998, and portions of the company were subsequently purchased by Iomega Corp. in January, 1999. SYQT Retained the rights to sell their products, allowing them to continue operations.
Syquest's product line included such devices as the following:
- 5.25" removable cartridge drives. These were offered in 44MB, 88MB, and 200MB capacities. Mostly used on Macintosh systems using a SCSI interface.
- 3.5" removable cartridge drives. This included the EZ135 portable unit, a competitor to Iomega's Zip drive. This was available in both SCSI and parallel port versions.
- SyJet units.
- Quest disc - a 4.7GB removable hard drive.
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