Corporate History
In 1990 Conner set a record by reaching $1.337 billion in sales in four years, without acquisitions, making it the fastest growing manufacturing start-up in United States history.
Conner Peripherals were also one of the first companies to produce IDE specification AV (audio/visual) hard drives for a low cost, such as the 420 megabyte AV in 1995-1996, and was the first to produce drives with a native (no external adapter) 1394 Firewire interface.
The company started manufacturing tape drives in 1993, when it purchased Archive Corporation.
In 1996 Conner Peripherals acquired by Seagate.
Finis Conner, the company founder, went on to form two other companies. Conner Technology Corporation was a manufacturer of low-cost 3.5-inch hard disk drives assembled in India, whose goal was to be a high-volume, low-cost supplier of mainstream hard disk drives to leading personal computer suppliers. Unfortunately, the company could never deliver the low prices required for personal computer suppliers to switch, and the company shut down its operations in 1998.
StorCard (2001) was a company dedicated to developing a new standard in high capacity smart cards. StorCard offers an encrypted, low-cost removable card using semiconductor memory in a credit card size format, along with a compatible receiver mechanism.
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