Microtech Introduces FireSCSI Xpress for External Peripheral Connectivity

NORTH BRANFORD, CT - July 19, 2000 -- Microtech International, Inc., a leading manufacturer of connectivity solutions for digital devices, today introduced its fastest connectivity solution to date, the FireSCSI Xpress[tm].

The FireSCSI Xpress adapter enables legacy, and new high-speed SCSI peripherals to be attached to the FireWire (IEEE-1394) port of a Macintosh or Windows PC. The FireSCSI Xpress adapter uniquely blends the high speed data transfer rate and the plug -and -play capabilities of FireWire technology with the versatility of the SCSI interface to provide an easy to use, high performance, external peripheral connectivity solution.

Installation is simple. No add-in cards and no need to open the system. Just connect the FireSCSI adapter to your digital camera, scanner, or other SCSI equipped device and plug the FireWire connector into the FireWire port of a Mac or PC. Providing a data transfer rate of up to 5MB/sec in asynchronous mode and 10MB/sec in synchronous mode, the FireSCSI Xpress enables higher performance SCSI peripherals to be used with an iMac DV, Sony Vaio, or other IEEE-1394 equipped computer.