History 2001: Fujitsu Exits Desktop HDD Business

For over a year now, the Scottish HDD drive manufacturer Calluna Technology has been seeking a buyer or investors.

A search in vain, evidently, since the company has since given up.

Calluna thus definitively ceased production of 1.8-inch PCMCIA devices on June 15, and is currently only concerned with selling its stock of existing devices.

The company now employs only a skeletal staff, while a court-appointed administrator is proceeding to dispose of the assets.

With Calluna’s demise, there are no remaining European HDD makers, with only a single factory on the continent, operated by IBM in Hungary.

This article is an abstract of news published on issue 164 on September 2001 from the former paper version of Computer Data Storage Newsletter.