Micropolis (company)

Micropolis Corporation (styled as MICROPΩLIS) was a disk drive company located in Chatsworth, California and founded in 1976. Micropolis initially manufactured high capacity (for the time) hard-sectored 5.25-inch floppy drives and controllers, later manufacturing hard drives using SCSI and ESDI interfaces. Micropolis later switched to when Shugart went to the 96 tpi standard, based on exact doubling of the standard. This allowed for backwards compatibility for reading by to read 48 tpi disks.

Micropolis (company)

Micropolis Corporation (styled as MICROPΩLIS) was a disk drive company located in Chatsworth, California and founded in 1976. Micropolis initially manufactured high capacity (for the time) hard-sectored 5.25-inch floppy drives and controllers, later manufacturing hard drives using SCSI and ESDI interfaces. Micropolis later switched to when Shugart went to the 96 tpi standard, based on exact doubling of the standard. This allowed for backwards compatibility for reading by to read 48 tpi disks.