- Tecmar
Tecmar was an American manufacturer of PC enhancement products based in the suburbs of
Cleveland, OH . The company was founded in 1974 and their first products weredata acquisition boards for the first generation ofmicrocomputer s. Popular products included the Scientific SolutionsLabMaster series of boards for S-100 and Apple computers. [ [http://www.labmaster.com/archives/archives.html Origins of Tecmar] ]In 1981, at the first Comdex show in Las Vegas, IBM introduced the IBM PC and Tecmar introduced the first of many add-in cards for the IBM PC. These products included the Scientific Solutions LabMaster, LabTender, IEEE-488,BaseBoard,TimeMaster,GraphicsMaster, memory expansion boards, external
hard disk drive s andtape drive s. In 1985, Tecmar incorporated Scientific Solutions Inc. and used this new company to design and distribute the data acquisition products.In 1986, Tecmar was acquired by the technology holding company
Rexon .While Scientific Solutions continued to design and market scientific and multimedia products, Tecmar concentrated data storage. In 1991, Rexon purchased two other tape drive manufacturers,WangTek andWangDAT to add to the Tecmar product line. Then in 1995, while Rexon was having financial difficulties Tecmar was sold toLegacy Storage Systems and Scientific Solutions continued as an independent company focused on the original Tecmar product line of data acquisition equipment. Three years later, in 1998, Tecmar was sold to a new holding company, TTI [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_1998_March_4/ai_20354671 Acquisition by TTI] ] , which positioned Tecmar as a comprehensivemagnetic tape data storage brand. This was reinforced in 1999 whenIomega sold their Ditto brand to Tecmar [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_13_45/ai_54339376 Acquisition of Ditto brand] ] . At this time, Tecmar offered DAT, QIC,Travan and Ditto magnetic tape technologies. In 2000,Overland Data saw this and acquired Tecmar [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0ECZ/is_2000_Jan_12/ai_58586380 Acquisition by Overland] ] in an effort to compliment its line of higher end tape products. This did not last long.As of 2007, Tecmar is a dormant [http://www.tecmar.com] brand owned by Overland and Scientific Solutions is an active [http://www.scientific-solutions.com] corporation.
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