Priam Corporation

Priam Corporation was a company located in San Jose, California, founded in 1978 by William Schroeder and Al Wilson, two former Memorex executives, as a manufacturer of hard disk drives.

[3] Their 8-inch hard disks could be found in a wide variety of add-on products like the huge Mator Shark box with IEEE-488 interface for Commodore PET/CBM computers[4] or the Priam DataTower series, external storage solutions, combining high-capacity hard disks and streamers in a single case, which could interface to various computers including IBM PCs.

This included custom hard disk controllers (based on Western Digital designs) as well as dedicated software for formatting (PFMT.EXE) and partitioning (EDISK.EXE).

[7] Priam opened a manufacturing facility in Taiwan in 1987 to move the production of 5.25-inch drives there.

[7] Finally, the disk drive business was sold to Prima International of Santa Clara, California, a computer peripherals VAR, in 1991.