Stac Electronics

Stac, Inc.
Formerly
  • State of the Art Consulting
  • Stac Electronics
Company typePublic
IndustryComputer software
Founded1983; 41 years ago (1983) as State of the Art Consulting in Pasadena, California,
United States
FounderGary Clow, Doug Whiting, John Tanner, Mike Schuster, William Dally, Scott Karns, Robert Monsour, Robert Johnson, Hugh Ness
FateDissolved in 2002; 22 years ago (2002)
Headquarters,
United States
ProductsStacker disk compression utility

Stac Electronics, originally incorporated as State of the Art Consulting and later shortened to Stac, Inc., was a technology company founded in 1983. It is known primarily for its Lempel–Ziv–Stac lossless compression algorithm and Stacker disk compression utility for compressing data for storage.