Editing MiniScribe (section)

{{short description|Defunct American data storage company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = MiniScribe Corporation
| logo = MiniScribe logo 1986.svg
| type = Private
| industry = Data storage
| founded = {{Start date and age|1980}} in [[Longmont, Colorado]]
| founder = [[Terry Johnson (entrepreneur)|Terry Johnson]]
| defunct = {{End date and age|1990}}
| fate = Acquired by [[Maxtor]]
| successor = Maxtor Colorado Corporation
| products = [[Hard disk drive]]s
| num_employees = 
| num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) -->
}}
'''MiniScribe Corporation''' was a manufacturer of [[disk storage]] products, founded in [[Longmont, Colorado]] in 1980. MiniScribe designed and sold [[stepper motor]]-based [[hard disk drive]]s with a large amount of onboard logic for the time. They eventually moved into higher-profile [[voice coil]] motor designs, and won major contracts with [[IBM]]. Massive financial fraud starting in 1987 led to bankruptcy in 1990, when their assets were bought by [[Maxtor]] and renamed '''Maxtor Colorado Corporation'''.