The company's hard drives were chiefly sourced from Seagate and reconfigured in bespoke configurations for certain computing platforms, such as the Macintosh (under the MacLite name), the IBM PC, and the Compaq Deskpro, among others.

[1][2] The company encountered financial difficulty in the early 1990s following two failed attempts at selling its own personal computers, and it reorganized into AmeriQuest Technologies in 1993.

CMS Enhancements was founded in Irvine, California, as Complete Management Systems in July 1983,[3] by Jamshed "Jim" Farooquee, Mason Tarkeshian, and Tom Ong.

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 uninterruptible power supplies under the CMS brand.

Based in Long Island, New York, North Atlantic's DSP division had manufactured a wide variety of tape drives for personal and enterprise computers.

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,[3] at which point the company had 440 employees worldwide.

[3] In order to avoid seeking bankruptcy protection with the Securities and Exchange Commission, CMS was forced to downsize heavily during this time, reducing its workforce from a peak of 549 to 215 and selling off its manufacturing plants in Singapore and Pakistan (the latter opened in 1990).

AmeriQuest became a value-added reseller, buying existing computer systems from established manufacturers and outfitting them with software and hardware catered to specific industries.