MiniScribe
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A 44 MB MiniScribe disk drive near an unrelated CF card.
MiniScribe was a manufacturer of disk storage products, founded in Longmont, Colorado in 1980. MiniScribe designed and sold stepper motor-based hard disks with a large amount of onboard intelligence for the time, eventually moving into higher-profile voice coil motor designs before going bankrupt in 1990, and subsequently being purchased by Maxtor. MiniScribe’s failure centered on one of the first major accounting scandals in the computer industry; after losing a supply contract with IBM's PC division in 1985, MiniScribe falsified its sales records for several years before being discovered in 1989.
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- Cooking the Books: How Pressure to Raise Sales Led MiniScribe To Falsify Numbers 1989 Wall Street Journal article about the fraud
- 94-1592 U.S. v. Wiles, 95-1022 U.S. v. Schleibaum Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals decision regarding the criminal case
- Fraud Is Cited at Miniscribe. AP. New York Times (1989-09-13). Retrieved on 2007-10-12.
