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Gemstar Protective Hard Cases Expands Stronghold® line with 19 New Size

Gemstar Protective Hard Cases announces the expansion of the Stronghold ® hard case line with 19 new sizes. Adding these new hard cases increases the number of Gemstar’s premier line of hard cases to 134 standard dimensions. These new dimensions come on top of the 91 new standard sizes introduced by Gemstar in its Stronghold line in 2022.

The military, aerospace, aviation, medical device, industrial, and commercial customers rely on Gemstar Stronghold hard cases for their quality, precision, and ability to be customized to meet a specific need. Manufactured with Gemstar’s exclusive robotic rotational molded process, Stronghold double-walled hard cases are airtight, watertight, and built to last years of use.

Stronghold cases boast GSR™ high-performance resin, patented latches, rubberized spring-loaded handles, recessed hardware, and interlocking stackability. This military-grade hard case is designed and tested to meet or exceed MIL-STD 810F and military Long Life Reusable.

Case (LLRC) standards. Most importantly, they can be customized internally to protect sensitive assets properly. Stronghold cases are available in over 145 sizes, including non-published sizes.

“We added these new dimensions to our Stronghold line based on our long history with military, aeronautics, and medical device customers that need premium hard cases to transport sensitive equipment,” said Kevin Paulson, Director of Products for Gemstar Manufacturing. “Having these dimensions ready to go allows us to increase our speed in meeting the needs of our customers.”

Gemstar designs, create and tests highly technical solutions to meet any industrial or commercial application. Gemstar is proud to be the first manufacturer in the United States to offer robotic rotational molding. Gemstar’s proprietary Robomold ® manufacturing technology provides precision plastic solutions with fully automated capabilities. Robomold technology provides product consistency, repeatability, material control, and superior quality. This technology allows Gemstar to produce cutting-edge plastic solutions, such as multi-layer products not previously available in conventional rotational molding.

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Announcing the release of “vintage” Windows images

ARS Technologies are releasing two older Windows release images:

- Windows 98 SE (second edition)https://arstech.com/install/index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=img-w98

- Windows ME (millennium edition)

- https://arstech.com/install/index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=img-wME

- both Windows 98 SE & Windows ME

- https://arstech.com/install/index.php?app=ecom&ns=prodshow&ref=img-wME-w98

These operating systems were a product of Microsoft. They are no longer sold or maintained by Microsoft.

No longer can modern computer hardware install and boot older Windows operating systems.

However, these images are booted and used under dosbox-x environment as a “guest” operating system, under a modern Windows, Mac OS, or Linux 64bit “host” operating system. Documentation on dosbox-x - https://dosbox-x.com/wiki/

Before installing and using these older operating systems images, the Users confirm that they previously owned a legal copy of an older operating system by Microsoft.

The current use may be considered as a replacement.

Image details:

- Windows 98 SE - size 250MB

- Windows ME - size 1GB

Supports loading and running of:

- 16bit DOS applications and drivers

- 16bit Windows 3.1, 3.11 applications and drivers

- 32bit applications with direct access to i/o ports

- 32bit applications with .vxd type of drivers

- 32bit applications with .sys type of drivers, with .inf install

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