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data storage industry led to a shrinking market share for CMS between 1990 and 1991. These combined difficulties led to CMS posting its first loss in June 1991, of $ 8.5 million. In an attempt to turn the company's fortunes around by diversifying its portfolio, CMS made a joint venture with the Korean computer manufacturer
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Back in Tustin, the company operated a 73,000-square-foot facility; in 1988, the company purchased another 50,000-square-foot building in the city. In August 1988 they opened up a branch office in the
Netherlands. Right before the end of 1988, Tarkeshian and Ong left the company, the latter retiring
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and requests for refunds from CMS customers. Secondly, its acquisition of North
Atlantic DSP with all its factory space turned out too complex for CMS to manage, leading to multi-million dollar write-offs by 1992, at which point the company had 440 employees worldwide. A price war in the external
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and a 5,000-square-foot plant in Long Island. The purchase of the North
Atlantic DSP allowed CMS to manufacture its own products for the first time. CMS's first product to come from these factories was the LiteTape, a 40-MB portable tape drive for PC-compatible
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Fueled by growth in 1987 leading to $ 133 million in sales, CMS expanded rapidly in 1988. The company by 1989 had more than 300 distinct mass storage products—now including tape drives—and had introduced graphic cards, memory expansion boards, and
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at the age of 60. By June 1989, CMS reached sales of $ 200 million, a 32 percent increase from the previous year, while net income reached to $ 4.8 million, a 92 percent increase from 1988.
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in 1992. Virtually none of these TriGem-built CMS computer systems were ever manufactured, and the joint venture collapsed that year. CMS posted another $ 8.5 million in losses in June 1992.
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for their hard drives), the tape drive products were of CMS' manufacture, the result of the purchase of North
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in 1991, to manufacture CMS-branded PC compatibles. CMS's entry in the personal computer arena proved very ill-timed due to a fierce price war in the segment ushered in by
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CMS began to flounder in the early 1990s. The first of its difficulties were faulty hard drive units delivered to CMS by
Seagate in late 1988, which led to numerous
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