Rimage Corporation

Ixi Laboratories, Inc.

Information Exchange Systems, Inc.

David C Burns

Ronald R Johnson

Robert L Skubic

John S Lee

Timothy P Fitzgerald

Walter Gysling

Richard D Schuelke

James A Sieben

Gerry A Lee

Kim H Kimmerle

Thomas P Fowler

Mark C Albu

John C Ridges

David C Duncan

Robert J Kirscht

A media recording system is described which insures a fast uninterrupted recording. The system includes a media recorder and a data storage unit assigned to the media recorder. A controller is provided which operates parallel to a central processing unit such that data is transferred from the data storage unit to the media recorder without interruption. The media can be a recordable compact disc (CD-R) and the controller can be a programmable SCSI bus.

Data flow management system for recordable media

A system for automating the processing and packaging of prerecorded diskettes, including a label printer and applicator for applying the printed labels as the diskette moves along a conveyor, a diverter for rejecting faulty diskettes, a sleever for inserting collator cards into predetermined positions in an output bin where the sleeved diskettes are placed, all under automatic control of a control processor.

Diskette finishing unit

A system for facilitating the mass duplication of flexible diskettes of the type used to store programs and related data for use with word processors, computer systems, etc. A microprocessor-controlled base station, including a Kopy Module and two associated manual modules, is coupled by means of a daisy-chained bidirectional data Way to a plurality of slave stations. The Kopy Module may be used to store a plurality of possible diskette formats as well as operator-introduced copy and duplicating instructions. Blank diskettes are fed into the slaves and the blank diskettes are formatted in accordance with information supplied by the master. An especially designed translator contained within the Kopy Module allows diskettes bearing all of the commonly used data encoding techniques to be replicated. In another mode of operation, diskettes with unknown formats are analyzed, deciphered and stored for later use.

Master/slave system for replicating/formatting flexible magnetic

A system for handling and sorting floppy disk-type data, storage media. A stack of diskettes to be sorted is positioned proximate a diskette reader having a floppy disk drive contained therein. A picker mechanism is disposed beneath the stack and operates to repeatedly remove the lowermost disk from the stack and to feed it via a reversible pinch-roller conveyor first to the drive mechanism in the reader where information is read and then to one of a plurality of sorter bins located serially downstream from the reader via the same conveyor, the particular sorter bin being determined by the information read from the floppy disk.

Horizontal flexible disk loading and sorting/collating mechanism

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David C Burns