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Apr 15, 2022 · [Tech Time Traveller] has an interesting video about the dawn of PC hard drives focusing on a company called MiniScribe. After a promising start, they lost an IBM contract and fell on hard times.
But it all fell apart in spectacular fashion, resulting in one of the most brazen, outrageous frauds in the history of the computer business. Miniscribe turned an inventory problem into a web of...
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Apr 17, 2013 · Origin of the slang meaning of brick in technology: Does it relate to MiniScribe's hard drive scheme? The Gillware Data Recovery Lab investigates.
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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.
Oct 10, 2019 · It was one the biggest if not the biggest scandal in the history of the WW storage industry: to get better financial results, US manufacturer Miniscribe (Longmont, CO), registered sales bricks rather than HDDs (about the same volume and weight) in 1989. The managers rented a second warehouse in Colorado, where they personally packed 26,000 ...
Apr 28, 2023 · The Miniscribe Brick refers to actual bricks boxed up and issued serial numbers as part of an inventory fraud in late 1987. In January 1987, Miniscribe’s officers discovered an inventory shortfall of between $2 and $4 million.
Apr 3, 2022 · Hard drives are engineering marvels, even ones from the 80s.Longer version: https://youtu.be/FtFdUamaRhY
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