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Memorex




Memorex started by first selling computer and video tapes, then added other media (e.g. disk packs) and then added peripheral equipment for IBM mainframes. During the 1970's and into the 1980's Memorex was worldwide a leading independent supplier of disk drives and communication controllers to users of IBM compatible mainframes as well as a leading computer and consumer media supplier.

Memorex's peripheral equipment businesses missed the transition from mainframes to servers and/or pc's so in the 1980's Memorex was dismembered by its then owners, first Burroughs and then Unisys.

Memorex Telex N.V., a Netherlands corporation, survived as an entity of the original Memorex until the middle 1990'shttp://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/818035/0000912057-96-027150.txt. Unisys spun out the media, communications and IBM end user sales and service organization as Memorex. Subsequently Memorex merged with Telex. The company evolved into a providor of information technology solutions including the distribution and integration of data network and storage products and the provision of related services in 18 countries worldwide. As late as 2006, several pieces existed as subsidiaries of other companies, see e.g., Memorex Telex Japan Ltdhttp://www.memorex.co.jp/ a subsidiary of Kanematsuhttp://www.kanematsu.co.jp/CONTENTS/eng/group/it.html or Memorex Telex (UK) Ltd. a subsidiary of EDS Global Field Serviceshttp://www.memorex-telex.com/aboutus/.


TIMELINE

  • 1961 - Memorex is started

  • Jun 1968 - Memorex ships world's first plug compatible disk drive

  • Sep 1971 - Memorex launches its consumer business with shattering glass advertisements

  • 1972 - Memorex launches its famous "Is it live, or is it Memorex?" campaign

  • Apr 1981 - Burroughs acquires Memorex

  • Apr 1982 - Burroughs sells Memorex consumer brand to Tandy

  • May 1985 - Burroughs exits OEM disk drive business, selling sales and service to Toshiba

  • Sep 1986 - Burroughs and Sperry merges, forming Unisys

  • Dec 1986 - Unisys spins off Memorex Media, Telecommunications and International businesses as Memorex International NV.

  • Jan 1988 - Memorex-Telex mergerhttp://febcm.club.fr/english/information_technology/information_technology_4.htm

  • Dec 1988 - Unisys mainly shut's down large disk business and spins off service and repair as Sequel.

  • Nov 1993 - Tandy sells Memorex consumer brand to a Handy Holdings http://www.memorex.com/images/About_Memorex.pdf

  • Jan 2006 - Handy Holdings sells Memorex consumer brand to Imation in an all-cash transaction.http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/01/19/imation_acquires_memorex/



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