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Task One 

Some companies that produce 3.5" MO optical drives:

Fujitsu 

IBM

Pinnacle Micro 

Many companies produce MO disks but one of the main ones are:

Verbatim 

 

 

Task Two

    The Information Storage Industry Consortium is dedicated to serving as an integrating force, bringing together the unique capabilities of industry, academia and government in the development of advanced, pre-competitive data storage technologies.

    The Information Storage Industry Consortium (INSIC) is the research consortium for the worldwide information storage industry. INSIC membership includes more than sixty-five corporations, universities and government organizations with common interests in the field of digital information storage. Corporate membership includes major information storage product manufacturers and companies from the storage industry infrastructure. INSIC has its headquarters in San Diego and was originally incorporated in April 1991 as NSIC, a non-profit mutual benefit corporation. Since its introduction, INSIC has worked on many projects and a list of these as well as what they plan to work on in the future can be found here.

Task Three

    We propose, as our new process, that MO drives be integrated into computer systems as a new standard by major computer companies. This would be beneficial for many reasons. The first reason is that the general public would be exposed widely to the possibilities that MO might have to offer them as opposed to the CD-R drives they're. Such benefits would be increased storage capacities, heightened durability, and quick read and write times. 

 

Task Four

Dear Dell Company,

 

            It has come to our attention that the Dell Company reaches the widest audience in the computing market mainly because of its excellent service, prices, and support.  We come to you from the Oklahoma School of Science and Mathematics Enid Regional Center with a proposal for a new process in your business.  Due to our intensive research in a recent science project, it has come to our attention that the potential benefits that Magneto-Optical Data Storage has to offer are very great.  The durability, quickness in read and write times, high storage capacities, and overall efficiency of this data storage technology supersedes many of the current qualities of the status quo CD-R you currently integrate as a standard in your desktop and other computer products.  We propose that as a marketing technique you integrate on some level MO drives into your products to extract many of these good features for your customers.  It is to our understanding that high level integration has never been tried before, and we feel that the benefits could be high for both the people using your computers and your status as a company. 

 

                                                                                                Sincerely,

                                                                                    George S., Trey W., Jon P., Keith C.

 

 

 

http://www.usbyte.com/common/history_of_storage.htm - History of Data Storage

http://www.usbyte.com/common/White papers/MO_WP.htm - Advancement of Knowledge

http://www.fujitsu.com/sg/services/computing/storage/mo/about/history - History of Fujitsu

http://www.usbyte.com/common/MOsystems.htm - Basics of MO Storage