PALO ALTO, CA, February 20, 1996 -- Pretec Electronics Corp. has announced its membership in the four month old CompactFlash Association (CFA) and immediately announced product samples of 4MB and 8MB CompactFlash™ ATA cards to be demonstrated at the PC Card Expo '96, February 19, 20 and 21 at the San Jose Convention Center., San Jose, California.
The CFA , which has over thirty member companies, promotes the adoption of CompactFlash as a new industry standard for removable digital data storage.
Bill Frank, CFA Executive Director, said "The endorsement of the CompactFlash standard by Pretec adds to the multiple sources for CF storage products that are used across many different applications. We expect an increasing number of sources for CompactFlash to be announced in the near future. The support of these companies also will increase demand for CF by encouraging more companies to begin to designing CF into future generation digital cameras, pentop computers, PDAs, cellular phones and other products."
David Chow, V.P. Technology of Pretec Electronics, stated, "We believe that CompactFlash will become increasingly popular and widely accepted as an industry standard, small, removable data storage system for capturing, digital data, and transporting digital data, image, and audio information. Being designed into new-generation consumer products such as digital cameras, cellular phones, advanced two-way pagers, and digital voice recorders, CompactFlash cards will certainly be in high demand for data storage and transportation between a variety of digital systems. Establishing itself as one of the leading vendors of PC Card products, Pretec is in full support of CompactFlash technology."
The CompactFlash storage card is an ultra-small, removable data storage system, which meets all PCMCIA standards, can be easily slipped into a passive adapter card which then can be used to move data, images and audio to any standard PC card slot in computers, printers, set-top boxes and other electronic platforms.
Pretec offers a broad spectrum of Flash memory cards based on various technologies, including Speedy Flash cards for HP Palmtops (95/100/200LX), Linear Flash cards, and Flash ATA PC Cards as mass-storage solutions for a variety of PDA, PCA, and hand-held devices. More flash card product series based on CompactFlash technology will be released soon.
The CompactFlash Association was founded in October 1995, by Apple Computer Inc., Canon, Eastman Kodak Company, Hewlett-Packard, LG Semicon, Matsushita (Panasonic), Motorola, NEC, Polaroid, SanDisk, Seagate and Seiko Epson. The organization promotes adoption of CompactFlash as a worldwide storage standard. The CFA, which makes the CompactFlash trademark and technical specifications available royalty-free to member companies, is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA. (415) 843-1220.
Detail information on Pretec's product lines can be found on the World Wide Web: http://www.pretec.com
CompactFlash is a trademark of SanDisk Corporation and is licensed royalty-free to the CFA which in turn will license it royalty-free to its members.
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