Freecom is a German manufacturer of

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s (where the actual hard drive is manufactured by

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television receivers and a

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service. The original President and CEO was Dick C. Hoogerdijk and Managing Director is Axel Lucassen. It is the first company to release an external hard drive to USB 3.02 standards. The company was founded in 1989 and sold to Mitsubishi Chemical / Verbatim in 2009.

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