History (1992): Komag, New Manufacturer of Magneto-Optical Media

Komag, Inc. (Milpitas, CA), a leading independent maker of thin-film disks for the Winchester disk drive market, has entered into the magneto-optical business.

Here is Komag next 230MB MO cartridge:

The media is manufactured in its corporate HQs in Milpitas, CA.

“We began sales of the 3.5-inch format 128MB cartridqe in January of this year,” said Martin Rosemblum, manager, optical disk technology. “We have received repeat orders for several thousands of cartridges. We expect to be marketing 5.25-inch format MO media in 3Q93.”

This article is an abstract of news published on the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter on issue ≠56, published on September 1992.