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| Disposal Groups, Including Discontinued Operations, Disclosure [Text Block] | 5. DISCONTINUED OPERATIONS On March 22, 2016, the Company entered into a Purchase and Assignment Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with SDSI. Under the Purchase Agreement, the Company sold and transferred all of the assets related to the Company’s product and support services division (the “Business”), including the Company’s StrongBox and SPHiNX storage solutions, to SDSI. SDSI also assumed certain liabilities of the Company related to the Business, and absorbed the majority of Crossroads’ employees. As consideration under the Purchase Agreement, SDSI paid the Company net proceeds equal to $1.9 million in cash on the closing date. Consideration of $1.0 million was paid to the holders of the Company’s 5.0% Series F Convertible Preferred Stock (the “Series F Preferred Stock”) in exchange for a vote to approve the divestiture. The Board of Directors approved this payment, which has been reflected as a cost to sell the Business. The assets and liabilities transferred for consideration received in the second fiscal quarter of 2016 were (in thousands, at book value):
The amounts in the statement of operations that are part of the discontinued operations are summarized in the following table (in thousands):
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