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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 onboard logic for the time. They eventually moved into higher-profile voice coil motor designs, and won major contracts with IBM. Massive financial fraud starting in 1987 led to bankruptcy in 1990, when their assets were bought by Maxtor and renamed Maxtor Colorado Corporation.

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  • MiniScribe Corporation war ein in Longmont, Colorado ansässiger Hersteller von Massenspeichermedien, der 1980 von Terry Johnson gegründet wurde. Der Hersteller wurde in den 1980er Jahren für seine günstigen Schrittmotor-basierten Laufwerke bekannt und profilierte sich als einer der führenden Anbieter in dieser Branche. Nachdem das Management die Lagerbestände über mehrere Jahre hinweg falsch verbucht und die Bilanzprüfer bewusst in die Irre geführt hatte, wurde das Unternehmen 1990 insolvent. Der Untergang der MiniScribe Corporation stellte einen der ersten größeren Skandale in der Computerindustrie dar. (de)
  • 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 onboard logic for the time. They eventually moved into higher-profile voice coil motor designs, and won major contracts with IBM. Massive financial fraud starting in 1987 led to bankruptcy in 1990, when their assets were bought by Maxtor and renamed Maxtor Colorado Corporation. (en)
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