In 1983, Jerry Pournelle reported in BYTE that a software-publisher friend of his "distributes all his software on Dysan disks.

[1] By that year Dysan was a Fortune 500 company, had over 1200 employees, and was ranked as among the top ten private sector employers within Silicon Valley by the San Jose Mercury News, in terms of number of employees.

In addition, some of Dysan's administrative and disk production facilities, located within the company's Santa Clara, manufacturing campus, were regarded as architecturally remarkable.

For example, some of Dysan's Santa Clara campus magnetic media manufacturing facilities included architectural features such as large indoor employee lounge atriums, incorporating glass encased ceilings and walls, live indoor lush landscaping, waterfalls, running water creeks, and ponds with live fish.

[citation needed] Some Dysan packaging included the following label: Flexible media should be disposed of in an environmentally sound manner.