Here's a blurb from a legal statement on Quantum's website:

"...the Company's continued receipt of media royalties from Maxell, Fujitsu 
and other media manufacturers..."

Is Fuji and Fujitsu the same company?

At 03:24 PM 8/8/2001 -0500, Andrew Shinkarev wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 11:16:34AM -0700, W. Curtis Preston wrote:
>
>We were told by sales rep of Midwest Systems that there are only
>two companies making DLT tapes: Fuji and Maxell, and this info
>came in from Imation. I do remember someone found similar info
>on Quantum Web site.
>Imation brand contains Fuji+Maxell tapes 1:3.
>Maxell works for us much much better and cost less than Fuji and
>Imation, so we switched to Maxell. I collected statistic for 5000 tapes.
>
>By the way Midwest offered us free replacement for bad tapes if
>we provide them back without degaussing.
>
>
>
> > Does anyone remember a discussion a while back on how there were really
> > only two manufacturers of DLT media in the world, and that everyone else
> > used those two and repackaged them?  There were allegedly some markings on
> > the tape which would tell you which of the two your vendor uses.
> >
> > 1. Is this true?
> > 2. Do you know of any source that can verify this?
> > 3. Who are those two companies?
> > 4. What are the markings?
> >
> >
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