SyQuest Technology

SyQuest Technology, Inc. NASDAQ: SYQT was an early entrant into the hard disk drive market for personal computers. The company was started in 1982 by Syed Iftikar who previously was a founder of Seagate. Its earliest products were the SQ306R, a 5MB 3.9" cartridge disk drive and associated Q-Pak cartridge for IBM XT compatibles. Subsequently a non-removable medium version was announced, the SQ306F. For many years SyQuest was the most popular means of transferring large desktop publisher documents such as advertisements to professional printers. SyQuest marketed their 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.