OnStream

OnStream Holdings, Inc.
Company type	Private
Founded	1998; 26 years ago in the Netherlands
Founder	William B. Beierwaltes
Defunct	2003; 21 years ago
Fate	Bankruptcy

OnStream Holdings, Inc., was a Dutch computer hardware company that manufactured magnetic tape data storage products. The company was a spin-off of Philips established in 1998 and went bankrupt in both 2001 and 2003.^[1]

As a result of its first bankruptcy in 2001, the company was split into two parts, OnStream Data and OnStream MST. The "Data" division manufactured magnetic tape products^[2] and the "MST" division produced the thin film tape heads.^[3] MST also produced microsieves and microelectromechanical systems products. After the second OnStream bankruptcy in 2003, the MST division was reborn as fluXXion, a maker of high-tech filtering products.^[4] fluXXion had some success in filtering beer and other food products but went bankrupt in 2011.^[5]

Prior to the first bankruptcy, the CEO was William B. Beierwaltes, a tape systems pioneer and founder of Colorado Memory Systems.^[6]

The company's magnetic tape data storage technology was called Advanced Digital Recording (ADR). Tape drives based on this technology were relatively high in data capacity and low in price.

References

^ "OnStream bankrupt again, leaving MEMS projects homeless". Small Times. 2003-05-23. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
^ Mueller, Scott (2003). Upgrading and Repairing PCs. Que Publishing. p. 685. ISBN 978-0-7897-2974-3.
^ Van Heeren, Henne; Andringa, Toon; Attenborough, K.; Eisenberg, Martin; Meeuws, P. (2003). "Thin film metal surface micromachining: A new enabling foundry technology". In Yasaitis, John A; Perez-Maher, Mary Ann; Karam, Jean Michel (eds.). Micromachining and Microfabrication Process Technology VIII. Vol. 4979. p. 178. doi:10.1117/12.478289.
^ "Fluxxion: 'Our value is basically our intellectual property'". Financial Times. 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
^ "Suspension of payment Fluxxion B.V. in Eindhoven (S.01/11/16)". FaillissementsDossier.nl. Retrieved 2019-10-02.
^ "OnStream, Inc. Positioned to Capitalize on Growing Demand for Affordable, High-Capacity Removable Storage". prnewswire.com. 1998-11-05. Archived from the original on 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2019-10-02.

External links

"Onstream, Tape Drives & Tape Backup". OnStream Data. Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2019-10-02.

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[1] "OnStream bankrupt again, leaving MEMS projects homeless". Small Times. 2003-05-23. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2019-10-02.

[2] Mueller, Scott (2003). Upgrading and Repairing PCs. Que Publishing. p. 685. ISBN 978-0-7897-2974-3.

[3] Van Heeren, Henne; Andringa, Toon; Attenborough, K.; Eisenberg, Martin; Meeuws, P. (2003). "Thin film metal surface micromachining: A new enabling foundry technology". In Yasaitis, John A; Perez-Maher, Mary Ann; Karam, Jean Michel (eds.). Micromachining and Microfabrication Process Technology VIII. Vol. 4979. p. 178. doi:10.1117/12.478289.

[4] "Fluxxion: 'Our value is basically our intellectual property'". Financial Times. 2010-06-03. Retrieved 2019-10-02.

[5] "Suspension of payment Fluxxion B.V. in Eindhoven (S.01/11/16)". FaillissementsDossier.nl. Retrieved 2019-10-02.

[6] "OnStream, Inc. Positioned to Capitalize on Growing Demand for Affordable, High-Capacity Removable Storage". prnewswire.com. 1998-11-05. Archived from the original on 2016-01-20. Retrieved 2019-10-02.

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