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Priam Corporation was a company located in San Jose, California, founded in 1978 by William Schroeder and Al Wilson, two former Memorex executives, as a manufacturer of hard disk drives.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 23 relations: Commodore PET, Computer History Museum, DOS, GPIB, Hard disk drive, IBM Personal Computer, List of defunct hard disk manufacturers, Mainframe computer, Master boot record, Memorex, Minicomputer, MS-DOS, NetWare, Newsbytes News Network, Partition type, Pick operating system, San Jose, California, Santa Clara, California, Storage Module Device, Tape drive, Unix, Value-added reseller, Western Digital.

  2. 1991 disestablishments in California
  3. 1991 mergers and acquisitions
  4. American companies disestablished in 1991
  5. Computer companies disestablished in 1991
  6. Computer companies established in 1978

Commodore PET

The Commodore PET is a line of personal computers produced starting in 1977 by Commodore International.

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Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California.

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DOS

DOS is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.

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GPIB

IEEE 488 cable with stacking connectors IEEE 488, also known as HP-IB (Hewlett-Packard Interface Bus) and generically as GPIB (General Purpose Interface Bus), is a short-range digital communications 8-bit parallel multi-master interface bus specification developed by Hewlett-Packard.

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Hard disk drive

A hard disk drive (HDD), hard disk, hard drive, or fixed disk is an electro-mechanical data storage device that stores and retrieves digital data using magnetic storage with one or more rigid rapidly rotating platters coated with magnetic material.

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IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.

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List of defunct hard disk manufacturers

At least 218 companies have manufactured hard disk drives (HDDs) since 1956. Priam Corporation and List of defunct hard disk manufacturers are computer storage companies and defunct computer hardware companies.

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Mainframe computer

A mainframe computer, informally called a mainframe or big iron, is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications like bulk data processing for tasks such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.

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Master boot record

A master boot record (MBR) is a type of boot sector in the first few blocks of partitioned computer mass storage devices like fixed disks or removable drives intended for use with IBM PC-compatible systems and beyond.

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Memorex

Memorex Corp. began as a computer tape producer and expanded to become both a consumer media supplier and a major IBM plug compatible peripheral supplier. Priam Corporation and Memorex are computer storage companies, defunct computer companies of the United States and defunct computer hardware companies.

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Minicomputer

A minicomputer, or colloquially mini, is a type of smaller general-purpose computer developed in the mid-1960s and sold at a much lower price than mainframe and mid-size computers from IBM and its direct competitors.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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NetWare

NetWare is a discontinued computer network operating system developed by Novell, Inc. It initially used cooperative multitasking to run various services on a personal computer, using the IPX network protocol.

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Newsbytes News Network

Newsbytes News Network, called "an Associated Press for tech-information junkies" was founded in May, 1983 in San Francisco, California by broadcast journalist Wendy Woods Gorski, who remained editor in chief for the 19 years.

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Partition type

The partition type (or partition ID) in a partition's entry in the partition table inside a master boot record (MBR) is a byte value intended to specify the file system the partition contains or to flag special access methods used to access these partitions (e.g. special CHS mappings, LBA access, logical mapped geometries, special driver access, hidden partitions, secured or encrypted file systems, etc.).

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Pick operating system

The Pick Operating System, also known as the Pick System or simply Pick, is a demand-paged, multi-user, virtual memory, time-sharing computer operating system based around a MultiValue database.

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San Jose, California

San Jose, officially the paren), is the largest city in Northern California by both population and area. With a 2022 population of 971,233, it is the most populous city in both the Bay Area and the San Jose–San Francisco–Oakland Combined Statistical Area—which in 2022 had a population of 7.5 million and 9.0 million respectively—the third-most populous city in California after Los Angeles and San Diego, and the 13th-most populous in the United States.

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Santa Clara, California

Santa Clara (Spanish for "Saint Clare") is a city in the county of the same name in the state of California.

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Storage Module Device

Storage Module Drive (SMD) is a family of storage devices (hard disk drives) that were first shipped by Control Data Corporation in December 1973 as the CDC 9760 40 MB (unformatted) storage module disk drive.

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Tape drive

A tape drive is a data storage device that reads and writes data on a magnetic tape.

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Unix

Unix (trademarked as UNIX) is a family of multitasking, multi-user computer operating systems that derive from the original AT&T Unix, whose development started in 1969 at the Bell Labs research center by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and others.

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Value-added reseller

A value-added reseller (VAR) is a company that adds features or services to an existing product, then resells it (usually to end-users) as an integrated or complete "turn-key" product.

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Western Digital

Western Digital Corporation (WDC, commonly known as Western Digital or WD) is an American computer drive manufacturer and data storage company, headquartered in San Jose, California. Priam Corporation and Western Digital are computer storage companies.

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See also

1991 disestablishments in California

1991 mergers and acquisitions

American companies disestablished in 1991

Computer companies disestablished in 1991

Computer companies established in 1978

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priam_Corporation

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