History (1992): List of Rodime Licensed HDD Companies to Grow

Little by little, all the 3.5-inch HOD manufacturers are agreeing on the truthfulness of the patents on 3.5-inch technology of Rodime plc (Boca Raton, FL), that stopped its manufacturing business last August to concentrate only on licensing its own technology.

The last ones to pay up are the Japanese Teac and the US Hewlett-Packard.

Here is the list of the 9 manufacturers that have agreed to pay royalties to Rodime:
– Miniscribe, now part of Maxtor, in 1987
– IBM in 1990
– Alps Electric in 1991
– Conner Peripherals in May 1991
– Fujitsu in 1991
– Matsushita in 1991
– Hitachi in 1991
– Teac in October 1991
– Hewlett-Packard in December 1991

Among the large 3.5-inch HDD manufacturers, Rodime still has to persuade Sony and mostly Quantum and Seagate.

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠48, published on January 1992.

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