By 1985 Tecmar had 600 employees and manufactured 100 Apple and IBM peripherals.
IBM Product Centers sold Tecmar tape drives, giving the company an important advantage over rivals. By March 1986 Tecmar had 20% of the
multifunction card market. That year Tecmar was acquired by the technology holding company
Rexon. Alpert stayed on the board of directors briefly before founding
Cumulus Corporation to market expansion cards for the
IBM PS/2. While Scientific Solutions continued to design and market scientific and multimedia products, Tecmar concentrated on data storage. In 1991, Rexon purchased two other tape drive manufacturers,
WangTek and
WangDAT to add to the Tecmar product line. Then in 1995, while Rexon was having financial difficulties, Tecmar was sold to
Legacy Storage Systems and Scientific Solutions continued as an independent company focused on the original Tecmar product line of data acquisition equipment. Three years later, in 1998, Tecmar was sold to a new holding company, TTI Holdings of
Longmont, Colorado, which positioned Tecmar as a comprehensive
magnetic tape data storage brand. This was reinforced in 1999 when
Iomega sold their
Ditto brand to Tecmar. At this time, Tecmar offered
DAT,
QIC,
Travan and Ditto magnetic tape technologies. In 2000,
Overland Data saw this and acquired Tecmar in an effort to complement its line of higher end tape products. As of 2007, Tecmar is a dormant corporation owned by Overland. == References ==