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SyQuest Technology, Inc.
An early entrant into the removable {hard
disk} market for {personal computers}. For may 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.
At the top of their current (Mar 1997) range are two drives,
The {SyJet} 1.5 {GB} a 3.5 inch, double platter removable
drive and the {EZFlyer} 230 {MB} also on 3.5 inch media. A
cartridge holding over 4.7GB is promised before the end of
1997.
In recent years they have not fared as well in the market,
whilst {Iomega} has 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. It would
appear that substantial restructuring has occurred over the
past few years.
{Home (http://www.syquest.com/)}.
(1997-03-27)