Computer companies established in 1972

Cray Inc., a subsidiary of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, is an American supercomputer manufacturer headquartered in Seattle, Washington. It also manufactures systems for data storage and analytics. , Cray supercomputer systems held the top three spots in the TOP500, which ranks the most powerful supercomputers in the world.

Japanese electronics company

American producer of minicomputers (1972–1998)

Traf-O-Data was a business partnership between Bill Gates, Paul Allen and Paul Gilbert that existed in the 1970s. The objective was to read the raw data from roadway traffic counters and create reports for traffic engineers. The company had only modest success but the experience was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft Corporation a few years later.

manufacturer of SCSI host adapter chipsets and disk array storage subsystems