[4] Corona Data System's first products were 5MB and 10MB external hard drives with interface cards and software to connect them to the Apple II and the IBM PC.

The laser printer was based on the Canon CX engine, but unlike competing products from HP and Apple, the printer's raster image processor was on an interface card inside the PC, which partially used the PC's processor for image processing thus reducing product cost.

[9] After Daewoo acquired a 70% share in the company, Corona Data Systems was renamed Cordata in 1986 in order to reflect diversification and to try to distance itself from identification as just a "PC clone" manufacturer.

[11] In the first season of the TV series, Halt and Catch Fire, a fictional drama depicting the birth of the personal computer industry in the 1980s, the pivot of company Cardiff Electric resembles both the history of Corona Data Systems and Compaq.

Like Cardiff Electric's fictional pivot to become a PC manufacturer, Corona's actual history included founding by two individuals: a computer systems expert (Harp) and a marketing/sales executive (Kramarz), and design of a portable IBM PC-compatible.

Although Cardiff Electric, like Compaq and unlike Corona, successfully fought IBM's accusations of copyright infringement with clean room designed BIOS.