OnStream
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OnStream Holdings of the Netherlands
was spun off from Philips
in 1998 and went bankrupt for a second time in 2003.
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 and the "MST" division produced the thin film tape heads. MST also produced microsieves and Microelectromechanical systems
products. After the second OnStream bankruptcy, the MST division was reborn as fluXXion, a maker of high tech filtering products. As of 2007, fluXXion has had some success in filtering beer and other food products.
Prior to the first bankruptcy, the CEO was William B. Beierwaltes, a tape systems pioneer and founder of Colorado Memory Systems.
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.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
was spun off from Philips
Philips
Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. , more commonly known as Philips, is a multinational Dutch electronics company....
in 1998 and went bankrupt for a second time in 2003.
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
Magnetic tape
Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording. Devices that record and play back audio and video using magnetic tape are tape recorders and video tape recorders...
products and the "MST" division produced the thin film tape heads. MST also produced microsieves and Microelectromechanical systems
Microelectromechanical systems
Microelectromechanical systems is the technology of very small mechanical devices driven by electricity; it merges at the nano-scale into nanoelectromechanical systems and nanotechnology...
products. After the second OnStream bankruptcy, the MST division was reborn as fluXXion, a maker of high tech filtering products. As of 2007, fluXXion has had some success in filtering beer and other food products.
Prior to the first bankruptcy, the CEO was William B. Beierwaltes, a tape systems pioneer and founder of Colorado Memory Systems.
The company's magnetic tape data storage
Magnetic tape data storage
Magnetic tape data storage uses digital recording on to magnetic tape to store digital information. Modern magnetic tape is most commonly packaged in cartridges and cassettes. The device that performs actual writing or reading of data is a tape drive...
technology was called Advanced Digital Recording
Advanced Digital Recording
Advanced Digital Recording is a magnetic tape data storage format developed by OnStream from 1998 to 2003. Since the demise of OnStream, the format has been orphaned. ADR is an 8-track, linear tape format.- Generations :- External links :*...
(ADR). Tape drives based on this technology were relatively high in data capacity and low in price.