20th Anniversary: MiniScribe?s downfall: bricks, not disk drives

EDITOR’S NOTE: As The Boulder County Business Report celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2001, each issue will take a look back at major business events of the past 20 years. Each of these stories will be reprinted in a special Business Report 20th Anniversary issue in November.

By Nancy Nachman-Hunt

Business Report Correspondent

LONGMONT — Boulder County had its share of tragedy, mayhem and malfeasance in 1989.

The county was rocked by the tragic deaths of 17 residents who were on the Chicago-bound United Airlines jet that crash-landed in a corn field near Sioux City, Iowa. The Boulder Valley School District was mired…