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FLASHPATH BREAKS THE MILLION-MARK!
By Michael Tomkins, The Imaging Resource
(Tuesday, November 16, 1999 - 3:00 EST)
"SmartDisk Announces One Millionth FlashPath"
Company Notes Growing Popularity of Floppy Disk
Adapter That Allows Easy Transfer of Digital Images,
Data and Audio from Flash Memory Cards to PCs
NAPLES, Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 15, 1999--
SmartDisk Corporation (NASDAQ: SMDK - news), a
designer, developer, and provider of products that simplify
the digital lifestyle and enable consumers to easily share
digital data among advanced consumer electronic
products, personal computers and the Internet, today
announced that it has now sold over one million units of its
FlashPath(TM) floppy disk adapter.
"The sale of our one millionth FlashPath occurred just
one and one half years after our company began
operations and just 15 months after SmartDisk shipped its
first FlashPath," said Michael S. Battaglia, president and
CEO of SmartDisk. "We are fortunate to participate in
markets that are young and that are growing very rapidly
- the markets for advanced digital consumer electronic
appliances. We are also happy that we are providing that
market with captivating and patented products. But our
most important corporate assets are the partnerships that
we enjoy and that have been forged with companies such
as Toshiba, FujiFilm and Olympus."
The first version of FlashPath, which SmartDisk
introduced in May 1998, allows the easy transfer of digital
images, data and audio from SmartMedia flash memory
cards to most PCs without the need for special cards,
external connections and interfaces. It is used with
camera models from well-known digital camera
manufacturers such as FujiFilm and Olympus.
SmartDisk recently announced two new FlashPath
adapters that herald the product line's compatibility with a
growing number of flash memory card formats. The first
is the FlashPath for Sony's Memory Stick(TM), which is
to be distributed on a worldwide basis by Sony
Corporation under its own brand name called Memory
Stick/Floppy Disk Adaptor. The second is the FlashPath
for MultiMediaCard, which SanDisk co-developed with
SmartDisk. SanDisk will distribute this FlashPath globally
and has placed an initial order for delivery in the first
quarter of 2000.
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