Editing Stac Electronics (section)

{{Short description|Defunct American technology company}}
{{Infobox company
| name                = Stac, Inc.
| former_name         = {{ubl|State of the Art Consulting|Stac Electronics}}
| logo                = Stac, Inc. logo.svg
| type                = [[Public company|Public]]
| industry            = [[Computer software]]
| fate                = Dissolved in {{end date and age|2002}}
| founded             = {{start date and age|1983}} as ''State of the Art Consulting'' in [[Pasadena, California]],<br />[[United States]]
| founder             = Gary Clow, Doug Whiting, John Tanner, Mike Schuster, [[Bill Dally|William Dally]], Scott Karns, Robert Monsour, Robert Johnson, Hugh Ness
| hq_location_city    = [[Carlsbad, California]]
| hq_location_country = United States
| key_people          = 
| products            = Stacker [[disk compression]] utility
| num_employees       = 
| num_employees_year  = 
| revenue             =
| homepage            =
}}
'''Stac Electronics''', originally incorporated as '''State of the Art Consulting''' and later shortened to '''Stac, Inc.''', was a technology company founded in 1983.  It is known primarily for its [[Lempel–Ziv–Stac]] [[lossless compression]] algorithm and '''Stacker''' [[disk compression]] utility for compressing data for storage.