Maxtor
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Maxtor Corporation was an American computer hard disk drive manufacturer. Founded in 1982, it was the third largest hard disk drive manufacturer in the world before being purchased by Seagate in 2006.
An early Maxtor hard drive (right) with a more modern laptop hard drive and coins (front) for size comparison
Maxtor OneTouch III Mini Edition
MiniScribe
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MiniScribe Corporation was a manufacturer of disk storage products, founded in Longmont, Colorado in 1980. MiniScribe designed and sold stepper motor-based hard disk drives with a large amount of onbo
Maxtor
…In 1985, Maxtor filed its initial public offering and started trading on the New York Stock Exchange as "MXO." Maxtor bought hard drive manufacturer MiniScribe in 1990. Maxtor was getting close to bankruptcy in 1992 and closed its engineering operations in San Jose, California, in 1993. In 1993, Hyundai…
A 44 MB, 5.25-inch full-height MiniScribe hard disk, shown with a more recent 2 GB CompactFlash memory card for size comparison
A MiniScribe Model 8425, manufactured on December 15, 1988, nearly a year before MiniScribe's bankruptcy and Maxtor's acquisition