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{{Short description|Defunct American storage equipment manufacturer}} {{distinguish|SciQuest}} {{Infobox company | name = SyQuest Technology | logo = SyQuest logo.svg{{!}}class=skin-invert | type = [[Public company|Public]] | industry = Data storage | founded = {{Start date and age|1982}} in [[Fremont, California]], United States | founder = {{ubl|Syed Iftikar|Ben Alaimo|Bill Krajewski|Anil Nigam|George Toldi}} | defunct = {{End date|2003}} | fate = Partially acquired by [[Iomega]] | num_employees = | num_employees_year = <!-- Year of num_employees data (if known) --> }} '''SyQuest Technology, Inc.''' ({{NASDAQ was |SYQT}})<ref name=SyQuestBankrupt.NYT>{{cite news |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/11/04/business/company-news-troubled-syquest-technology-suspends-its-operations.html |title=Troubled SyQuest Technology suspends its operations |date=November 4, 1998}}</ref> was an early entrant into the [[hard disk drive]] market for [[personal computers]]. The company was founded on January 27, 1982 <ref>{{Cite web | url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/syquest/brochures/SyQuest_Background198311xx.pdf | title=SYQUEST TECHNOLOGY BACKGROUND INFORMATION | date=November 1983 | website=www.bitsavers.org}}</ref> by Syed Iftikar who had been a founder of [[Seagate Technology|Seagate]],<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.forbes.com/1997/12/09/feat_side1.html|title=Sy's quest|work=[[Forbes]] |accessdate= 5 July 2010|date=9 December 1997}}</ref> along with Ben Alaimo, Bill Krajewski, Anil Nigam and George Toldi.<ref name=SyQuest.S3Hist>{{Cite web|url=http://s3.computerhistory.org/groups/ds-syquest-sq306-q100.pdf|title=SyQuest SQ306 Q100, 1982}}</ref> Its earliest products were the SQ306R, a 5 MB 3.9" (100 mm) cartridge disk drive and associated Q-Pak cartridge for [[IBM XT]] compatibles.<ref>{{cite journal |journal=Mini Micro Systems |last=Roman |first=Andrew |date=June 1982 |title=3.9-in. Winchester features removable media |pages=239β244}}</ref> Subsequently a non-removable medium version was announced, the SQ306F.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/syquest/brochures/SQ3xxF_Data_Sheet_198309xx.pdf|title=SQ306F, SQ312F, SQ325F Data Sheet}}</ref> For many years, SyQuest was the most popular means of transferring large [[desktop publishing|desktop publisher]] documents such as advertisements to [[printer (publisher)|professional printer]]s. SyQuest marketed its products as able to give personal computer users "endless" hard drive space for data-intensive applications like desktop publishing, Internet information management, pre-press, multimedia, audio, video, [[digital photography]], fast backup, data exchange and archiving, along with confidential data security and easy portability for the road.<ref name="FOLDOC">{{foldoc|SyQuest+Technology,+Inc.}}</ref> The introduction of lower-cost options like the [[Zip drive]] which offered similar capacity, and later the [[CD-R]] which was much less expensive once it reached mass-market, seriously eroded SyQuest's sales and the company went bankrupt in 1998. Sales of their existing inventory continued until 2003.
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