Defunct computer hardware companies

defunct computer hardware company

British microcomputer company

American integrated circuit components company

networking hardware vendor

Norwegian microcomputer manufacturer

British technology company which produced Sinclair ZX Spectrum add-ons

alt=Picture of the Mycro-1 with a portable computer running a terminal emulation software to connect to the Mycro-1|thumb|Mycro-1 connected to a terminal emulation program. It greets the user with the message: MYCROP V.2.8 (Z) Mycron was a pioneer manufacturer of microcomputers, located in Oslo, Norway.

Datasaab was the computer division of, and later a separate company spun off from, aircraft manufacturer Saab in Linköping, Sweden.

company that produced a number of vector supercomputers

CompUSA was an American retailer and reseller of personal computers, consumer electronics, technology products and computer services. Starting with one brick-and-mortar store in 1986 under the name Soft Warehouse, by the 1990s CompUSA had grown into a nationwide big box chain. At its peak, it operated at least 229 locations. Crushed by competition from other brick-and-mortar retailers, corporate oversight which was out of touch with evolving market realities, and a failure to make a strong transition to online sales, CompUSA began closing what they classified as "low performing" locations in 2

thumb|Logo of Regnecentralen Regnecentralen (RC) was the first Danish computer company, founded on 12 October 1955. Through the 1950s and 1960s, they designed a series of computers, originally for their own use, and later to be sold commercially. Descendants of these systems sold well into the 1980s. They also developed a series of high-speed paper tape machines, and produced Data General Nova machines under license.

DataPlay is an optical disc system developed by DataPlay Inc. and released to the consumer market in 2002. Using tiny (32mm-diameter) disks enclosed in a protective cartridge, it stored 250MB per side and was intended primarily for portable music playback. However, it could also store other types of data using pre-recorded disks and user-recorded disks (and disks that combined pre-recorded content with a writable area). It supported multisession recording. DataPlay Inc. was founded in 1998 by Steve Volk. The company's namesake optical disc won the CES Best of Show award in 2001.

American power management technology company

defunct German computer company

thumb|right|alt=Image of a Netezza Massive Parallel Processing Data Warehouse Appliance|Netezza Massive Parallel Processing Data Warehouse Appliance IBM Netezza (pronounced ne-teez-a, a word from Urdu language meaning "result", through Persian from Arabic natija, and a reference to network appliance) is a subsidiary of American technology company IBM that designs and markets high-performance data warehouse appliances and advanced analytics applications for the most demanding analytic uses including enterprise data warehousing, business intelligence, predictive analytics and business continuity

British manufacturer of telecommunications equipment

Kohjinsha (KJS) was a Japanese PC manufacturer best known outside Japan for their current SA1F00 UMPC. In November 2006, the company announced KOHJINSHA SA, a series of lightweight computers of simple configuration, that come with a high specification for the price, attracting the attention of enthusiast market. According to market information firm BCN, it was the market leader in Japan for computers with screens smaller than 11 inches.

Cromemco, Inc. was a Mountain View, California microcomputer company known for its high-end Z80-based S-100 bus computers and peripherals in the early days of the personal computer revolution.

American semiconductor company (1979–2017)

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American mobile hardware manufacturer

Zonbu was a technology company that marketed a computing platform which combined a web-centric service, a small form factor PC, and an open source based software architecture. Zonbu was founded by Alain Rossmann (previously founder and CEO of Openwave) and Gregoire Gentil (previously co-founder of Twingo Systems).

Maxdata is the name of two German information technology companies.

defunct company

American manufacturer of typewriters, and mechanical and electronic calculators

U.S.-based manufacturer of modems

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arcade game manufacturer

Dell Force10 (formerly nCore Networks, Force10 Networks), was a United States company that developed and marketed 10 Gigabit and 40 Gigabit Ethernet switches for computer networking to corporate, educational, and governmental customers. It had offices in North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific region.

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telecommunications technology company

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GoldStar was a South Korean electronics company established in 1958. The corporate name was changed to LG Electronics and LG Cable on February 28, 1995, after merging with Lucky Chemical. LG Cable was spun off from LG Electronics and changed its name to LS Cable in 2005.

PortalPlayer, Inc., founded in 1999, was a fabless semiconductor company that supplied system-on-a-chip semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players. The company handled semiconductor design and firmware development, while subcontracting the actual semiconductor manufacturing to merchant foundries.

fabless semiconductor company

American teleprinter manufacturer

American computer company (1975–1993)

Tilera Corporation was a fabless semiconductor company focusing on manycore embedded processor design. The company shipped multiple processors in the TILE64, TILEPro64, and TILE-Gx lines.

Unix manufacturer

AlphaSmart, Inc., formerly Intelligent Peripheral Devices, Inc., was an education technology company founded in 1992 by Apple Computer engineers Joe Barrus and Ketan Kothari, and Kothari's brother, Manish Kothari. At the time of their initial release in 1993, the first AlphaSmart models were marketed as smart keyboards designed to promote writing in the classroom as an alternative to expensive computer labs. The units' durability, long battery life, and limited functionality made them ideal for K-12 classrooms. Later models expanded functionality to spell-checking, running applications, and ac

TigerDirect was an El Segundo, California-based online retailer dealing in electronics, computers, and computer components. The company was previously owned by Systemax, which is known for its acquisitions of the intellectual property of the defunct U.S. retail chains Circuit City and CompUSA and relaunching them as online retailers. The two brands were subsequently shuttered in late December 2012 and consolidated into the TigerDirect site.

Solectron Corporation was an American electronics manufacturing company for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs). Solectron's first customer designed and distributed an electronic controller for solar energy equipment. The name "Solectron" was a portmanteau of the words "solar" and "electronics".

former network hardware business enterprise

American computer company existing between 1976 and 1984

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semiconductor company

IXYS Corporation is an American company based in Milpitas, California. IXYS focuses on power semiconductors, radio-frequency (RF) power semiconductors, and digital and analog integrated circuits (ICs).

American software company

defunct Brazilian microcomputer company

pioneering computer firm from the 1950s

Pertec Computer Corporation (PCC), formerly Peripheral Equipment Corporation (PEC), was a computer company based in Chatsworth, California which originally designed and manufactured peripherals such as floppy drives, tape drives, instrumentation control and other hardware for computers.

American hardware and software company

thumb|Gericom 1st Supersonic M6T Gericom was an Austrian computer equipment manufacturer, based in Linz, Upper Austria. Prior to being bought by bought by Taiwan-based Quanmax, Inc in 2008 and subsequently converted to Quanmax AG, the company received investment from the Oberlehner Private Foundation and Charles Dickson, an investor from Hong Kong.

Inmos International plc (trademark INMOS) and two operating subsidiaries, Inmos Limited (UK) and Inmos Corporation (US), was a British semiconductor company founded by Iann Barron, Richard Petritz, and Paul Schroeder in July 1978. Inmos Limited’s head office and design office were at Aztec West business park in Bristol, England.

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United States semiconductor company in the 1960s

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discontinued wholly owned subsidiary of IBM