Memorex began as a computer tape producer and expanded to become a major IBM plug compatible peripheral supplier. It is now a consumer electronics brand of Imation specializing in disk recordable media for CD and DVD drives, flash memory, computer accessories and other electronics.
Established in 1961 in Silicon Valley, Memorex started by selling computer tapes, then added other media such as disk packs. Memorex entered the consumer media business in 1971 first with its "shattering glass" advertisements and then with a series of famous television commercials featuring Ella Fitzgerald. In the commercials she would sing a note that shattered a glass while being recorded to a Memorex audio cassette. The tape was played back and the recording also broke the glass, asking "Is it live, or is it Memorex?"
Memorex Mini-Disc
MRX V brand Memorex magnetic tape
The company expanded from disk packs to disk drives and other peripheral equipment for IBM mainframes. During the 1970s and into the early 1980s Memorex was worldwide a leading independent supplier of disk drives and communications controllers to users of IBM-compatible mainframes as well as a leading supplier of media for computer uses and consumers.
In 1982 Memorex was bought by Burroughs. Over the next six years, Burroughs and its successor Unisys shut down, sold off or spun out the various parts of Memorex.
The computer media, communications and IBM end user sales and service organization were spun out as Memorex International. In 1988 Memorex acquired the Telex Corporation becoming Memorex Telex NV, a corporation based in the Netherlands, which survived as an entity until the middle 1990s.[1] The company evolved into a provider of information technology solutions including the distribution and integration of data network and storage products and the provision of related services in 18 countries worldwide. As late as 2006, several pieces existed as subsidiaries of other companies, see e.g., Memorex Telex Japan Ltd[2] a subsidiary of Kanematsu[3] or Memorex Telex (UK) Ltd. a subsidiary of EDS Global Field Services[4].
Today, Memorex is an Imation brand for consumer electronics and accessories such as portable audio players, iPod accessories, flat panel TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, flash drives, CDs and DVDs.[5] Few if any of these products are actually manufactured by Memorex or Imation; for example, CD-Rs are made by CMC Magnetics Corp of Taiwan, Ritek of Taiwan and Moser Baer of India. CD-Rs were formerly made by Daxon of Malaysia and Prodisc Technology of Taiwan.
John is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas (UNT). He directs and teaches Master Degree candidates in the areas of Training & Development and Human Performance Technology. John is also a facilitator for ASTD’s HPI certificate program.
Dr. Cox’s research interest includes employee retention and the application of research to the practice of human performance improvement. His research project “New Ideas for Retaining Store Level Employees” won the 2004 ASTD Excellence in Research to Practice award.
Dr. Cox is also the president of the Cox Learning Group. His firm helps companies select, develop, and retain their human resources talent.
He is a pioneer in the application of self-directed workplace learning methods. With over 20 years' experience, he has completed more than a hundred initiatives for clients in the Retail, Hospitality, Distribution, and Manufacturing industries.
He has held executive positions as Director of Education at ClubCorp and Corporate Manager of Training and Development for The Southland Corporation.
John has published for ASTD Journal and Training Magazine. His approach to Job Aid development was published in the ASTD Handbook for Technical and Skills Training.
Dr. Cox was awarded a Leadership Grant to attend North Carolina State University where he worked with Malcolm Knowles and received a Doctorate of Education.
Employee retention is one of the hottest topics in the business world today! Despite this, all too many companies still don't have a good understanding of what retention truly means, how it effects their business, and how to ensure retention rates among valued employees stays high. We help organizations understand the important factors affecting their retention, and set forth actionable strategies to increase the retention rates of your top performers.
Living in a digital world means that your data needs to be easily portable and accessible. File sizes are increasing, and floppy disks are disappearing. Sharing digital photos, music, and videos between home, work, and your friend's house is becoming commonplace. The current device of choice for making files portable is the flash drive. I recently had two opportunities to put a flash drive—the Memorex USB 2.0 Thumb Drive—to some real-world use.
My first test of the ThumbDrive occurred one night at about 11:30 at a Kinkos within driving distance of the office. For a trade show the following day, a colleague and I desperately needed 25 professionally printed and bound copies of a PDF file. We copied the files to the ThumbDrive and drove to Kinkos, where the employee behind the counter was able to place the ThumbDrive in a PC and copy the necessary files without any problems. The ThumbDrive passed the first test with flying colors.
The second test involved two amateurs — me and a friend — setting up a wireless network using only spare parts. One key to successfully installing any piece of hardware is having the correct drivers, which is where the ThumbDrive came into play. We loaded the drivers for each device onto the drive, then used it to install the network. Transfer speeds were fast: The ThumbDrive boasts an 8MBps transfer rate. The second test was a success. More important, I had discovered, firsthand, two real-world reasons to have a flash drive at the ready.
The USB 2.0 ThumbDrive comes packaged with a USB extension cable and a Windows 98 driver disk, and is available in three storage capacities (128MB, 256MB, and 512MB). Best of all, the device has a cool rubber-textured grip and a keychain accessory, making it a truly portable drive.
The ThumbDrive offers compact, lightweight and easy to use medium to transfer large files between computers. Memorex promises 10 years of data retention, which is significantly longer than you will find with a CDR or a DVD-R. Another huge benefit is the cross-platform capabilities, enabling portability between the PC and MAC environments. There is also a write protection switch that provides instant safety for your data, shielding it from accidental changes. Finally, there is a nice little LED light for verifying data access and connections.
My only complaints about the ThumbDrive concern the durability. The snap-on cap and the keychain do not feel sturdy or solid enough to withstand repeated use. Unfortunately, the keychain is attached directly to the cap through a thin, molded half-loop, which also detracts from the overall durability. However, neither of these flaws affect the performance or functionality (not to mention the sleek design) of the drive itself. The ThumbDrive has proven to be reliable and performed well when I needed it most, which is all I could ask for from a flash drive.
embarked on another career journey.
The new venture finds Botts serving as director of operations for Strategic Employee Benefit Services of Eastern North Carolina Inc. This role has him overseeing the day-to-day operations of the group’s Raleigh and Greensboro offices and ensuring that its back-end operations run smoothly.
Botts views his responsibilities as building a framework for the group’s operations. He and his team put a high degree of focus on customer service.
“We have to have consistency between offices,” Botts says. “Customer service is the key in this business. To achieve that, we have to have consistency.”
Strategic Employee Benefit Services is an employee benefits provider that works with 100 other affiliate offices across the U.S. through the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network.
Botts’ group covers eastern North Carolina from Winston-Salem to the coast, with a little business done in South Carolina. The group employs 25 in two offices.
Botts and his staff boast 900 corporate customers. Each customer represents five to 800 covered lives. The group also provides Medicare benefits to individual clients, though most of its business comes from corporate customers.
Established in 1961 in Silicon Valley, Memorex started by selling computer tapes, then added other media such as disk packs. Memorex entered the consumer media business in 1971 first with its "shattering glass" advertisements and then with a series of famous television commercials featuring Ella Fitzgerald. In the commercials she would sing a note that shattered a glass while being recorded to a Memorex audio cassette. The tape was played back and the recording also broke the glass, asking "Is it live, or is it Memorex?"
Memorex Mini-Disc
MRX V brand Memorex magnetic tape
The company expanded from disk packs to disk drives and other peripheral equipment for IBM mainframes. During the 1970s and into the early 1980s Memorex was worldwide a leading independent supplier of disk drives and communications controllers to users of IBM-compatible mainframes as well as a leading supplier of media for computer uses and consumers.
In 1982 Memorex was bought by Burroughs. Over the next six years, Burroughs and its successor Unisys shut down, sold off or spun out the various parts of Memorex.
The computer media, communications and IBM end user sales and service organization were spun out as Memorex International. In 1988 Memorex acquired the Telex Corporation becoming Memorex Telex NV, a corporation based in the Netherlands, which survived as an entity until the middle 1990s.[1] The company evolved into a provider of information technology solutions including the distribution and integration of data network and storage products and the provision of related services in 18 countries worldwide. As late as 2006, several pieces existed as subsidiaries of other companies, see e.g., Memorex Telex Japan Ltd[2] a subsidiary of Kanematsu[3] or Memorex Telex (UK) Ltd. a subsidiary of EDS Global Field Services[4].
Today, Memorex is an Imation brand for consumer electronics and accessories such as portable audio players, iPod accessories, flat panel TVs, Blu-ray Disc players, flash drives, CDs and DVDs.[5] Few if any of these products are actually manufactured by Memorex or Imation; for example, CD-Rs are made by CMC Magnetics Corp of Taiwan, Ritek of Taiwan and Moser Baer of India. CD-Rs were formerly made by Daxon of Malaysia and Prodisc Technology of Taiwan.
John is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Texas (UNT). He directs and teaches Master Degree candidates in the areas of Training & Development and Human Performance Technology. John is also a facilitator for ASTD’s HPI certificate program.
Dr. Cox’s research interest includes employee retention and the application of research to the practice of human performance improvement. His research project “New Ideas for Retaining Store Level Employees” won the 2004 ASTD Excellence in Research to Practice award.
Dr. Cox is also the president of the Cox Learning Group. His firm helps companies select, develop, and retain their human resources talent.
He is a pioneer in the application of self-directed workplace learning methods. With over 20 years' experience, he has completed more than a hundred initiatives for clients in the Retail, Hospitality, Distribution, and Manufacturing industries.
He has held executive positions as Director of Education at ClubCorp and Corporate Manager of Training and Development for The Southland Corporation.
John has published for ASTD Journal and Training Magazine. His approach to Job Aid development was published in the ASTD Handbook for Technical and Skills Training.
Dr. Cox was awarded a Leadership Grant to attend North Carolina State University where he worked with Malcolm Knowles and received a Doctorate of Education.
Employee retention is one of the hottest topics in the business world today! Despite this, all too many companies still don't have a good understanding of what retention truly means, how it effects their business, and how to ensure retention rates among valued employees stays high. We help organizations understand the important factors affecting their retention, and set forth actionable strategies to increase the retention rates of your top performers.
Living in a digital world means that your data needs to be easily portable and accessible. File sizes are increasing, and floppy disks are disappearing. Sharing digital photos, music, and videos between home, work, and your friend's house is becoming commonplace. The current device of choice for making files portable is the flash drive. I recently had two opportunities to put a flash drive—the Memorex USB 2.0 Thumb Drive—to some real-world use.
My first test of the ThumbDrive occurred one night at about 11:30 at a Kinkos within driving distance of the office. For a trade show the following day, a colleague and I desperately needed 25 professionally printed and bound copies of a PDF file. We copied the files to the ThumbDrive and drove to Kinkos, where the employee behind the counter was able to place the ThumbDrive in a PC and copy the necessary files without any problems. The ThumbDrive passed the first test with flying colors.
The second test involved two amateurs — me and a friend — setting up a wireless network using only spare parts. One key to successfully installing any piece of hardware is having the correct drivers, which is where the ThumbDrive came into play. We loaded the drivers for each device onto the drive, then used it to install the network. Transfer speeds were fast: The ThumbDrive boasts an 8MBps transfer rate. The second test was a success. More important, I had discovered, firsthand, two real-world reasons to have a flash drive at the ready.
The USB 2.0 ThumbDrive comes packaged with a USB extension cable and a Windows 98 driver disk, and is available in three storage capacities (128MB, 256MB, and 512MB). Best of all, the device has a cool rubber-textured grip and a keychain accessory, making it a truly portable drive.
The ThumbDrive offers compact, lightweight and easy to use medium to transfer large files between computers. Memorex promises 10 years of data retention, which is significantly longer than you will find with a CDR or a DVD-R. Another huge benefit is the cross-platform capabilities, enabling portability between the PC and MAC environments. There is also a write protection switch that provides instant safety for your data, shielding it from accidental changes. Finally, there is a nice little LED light for verifying data access and connections.
My only complaints about the ThumbDrive concern the durability. The snap-on cap and the keychain do not feel sturdy or solid enough to withstand repeated use. Unfortunately, the keychain is attached directly to the cap through a thin, molded half-loop, which also detracts from the overall durability. However, neither of these flaws affect the performance or functionality (not to mention the sleek design) of the drive itself. The ThumbDrive has proven to be reliable and performed well when I needed it most, which is all I could ask for from a flash drive.
embarked on another career journey.
The new venture finds Botts serving as director of operations for Strategic Employee Benefit Services of Eastern North Carolina Inc. This role has him overseeing the day-to-day operations of the group’s Raleigh and Greensboro offices and ensuring that its back-end operations run smoothly.
Botts views his responsibilities as building a framework for the group’s operations. He and his team put a high degree of focus on customer service.
“We have to have consistency between offices,” Botts says. “Customer service is the key in this business. To achieve that, we have to have consistency.”
Strategic Employee Benefit Services is an employee benefits provider that works with 100 other affiliate offices across the U.S. through the Northwestern Mutual Financial Network.
Botts’ group covers eastern North Carolina from Winston-Salem to the coast, with a little business done in South Carolina. The group employs 25 in two offices.
Botts and his staff boast 900 corporate customers. Each customer represents five to 800 covered lives. The group also provides Medicare benefits to individual clients, though most of its business comes from corporate customers.