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Datapoint
Datapoint Corporation, originally known as Computer Terminal Corporation (CTC), was a computer company based in San Antonio, Texas, United States. Founded in July 1968 by Phil Ray and Gus Roche, its first products were, as the company's initial name suggests, computer terminals intended to replace Teletype machines connected to time sharing systems.
Norsk Data
Norwegian computer manufacturer
AST Research
American personal computer manufacturer (1980–2001)
Osborne Computer Corporation
American computer company (1980–1985)
Cybiko
The Cybiko is a line of personal digital assistants and handheld game consoles first released by Cybiko Inc. in 2000. Cybiko Inc. was a startup company founded by David Yang; the eponymous PDA was first test marketed in New York in April 2000 and rolled out nationwide in May 2000. It was designed for teens, featuring its own two-way radio text messaging system. It has over 430 "official" freeware games and applications. It features a rubber QWERTY keyboard. An MP3 player add-on with a SmartMedia card slot was made for the unit as well. Cybikos can communicate with each other up to a maximum ra
Sequent Computer Systems
defunct computer hardware company
Tangerine Computer Systems
British microcomputer company
TeleVideo
TeleVideo Corporation was a U.S. company that achieved its peak of success in the early 1980s producing computer terminals. TeleVideo was founded in 1975 by K. Philip Hwang, a Utah State University, Hanyang University graduate born in North Korea who closed a successful 7-Eleven franchise he and his wife had run, and invested $9000 in savings in the new company. Hwang had run a business producing CRT monitors for arcade games since 1975. The company was headquartered in San Jose, California. thumb|A TeleVideo terminal model 925 made around 1982
Evans & Sutherland
company based in Salt Lake City
Dell Wyse
Wyse Technology, Inc., or simply Wyse, was an independent American manufacturer of cloud computing systems. Wyse are best remembered for their video terminal line introduced in the 1980s, which competed with the market-leading Digital. They also had a successful line of IBM PC compatible workstations in the mid-to-late 1980s. But starting late in the decade, Wyse were outcompeted by companies such as eventual parent Dell. Current products include thin client hardware and software as well as desktop virtualization solutions. Other products include cloud software-supporting desktop computers, la
Regnecentralen
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.
Tiki Data
Norwegian microcomputer manufacturer
Mycron
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.
Convex Computer
company that produced a number of vector supercomputers
Zonbu
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).
Friden, Inc.
American manufacturer of typewriters, and mechanical and electronic calculators
Escom
defunct German computer company
Kohjinsha
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
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.
Gremlin Industries
arcade game manufacturer
Maxdata
Maxdata is the name of two German information technology companies.
North Star Computers
American computer company existing between 1976 and 1984
Altos Computer Systems
Unix manufacturer
TriGem
TriGem Computer Inc. (, abbreviated TG, also known as TG Sambo), was a South Korean personal computer manufacturer and technology company. Established in 1980, TriGem was the first Korean company dedicated to manufacturing computer systems. It delivered Korea's first microcomputer in 1981 and the first Korean IBM PC compatibles in 1984. From that point until its breakup in 2010, it alternated between the first- and second-largest computer manufacturer in South Korea, competing with Samsung Electronics.
Processor Technology
1970s computer company
Memotech
thumb|Memotech MTX512 computer
Gericom
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.
Walton
brand of R.B Group of Industries
AMBRA Computer Corporation
discontinued wholly owned subsidiary of IBM
General Computer Corporation
American hardware and software company
Pertec Computer
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.
Tandon Corporation
American computer company (1975–1993)
ETA Systems
defunct American computer manufacturer
Computervision
Computervision, Inc. (CV) was an early pioneer in Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing (CAD/CAM). Computervision was founded in 1969 by Marty Allen and Philippe Villers, and headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts, United States. Its early products were built on a Data General Nova platform. Starting around 1975, Computervision built its own "CGP" (Computervision Graphics Processor) Nova-compatible 16-bit computers with added instructions optimized for graphics applications and using its own operating system known as Computervision Graphic Operating System (CGOS). In the 1980s, Computervisi
Cobalt Networks
American software company
Engineering Research Associates
pioneering computer firm from the 1950s
nCUBE
nCUBE was a series of parallel computing computers from the company of the same name. Early generations of the hardware used a custom microprocessor. With its final generations of servers, nCUBE no longer designed custom microprocessors for machines, but used server-class chips manufactured by a third party in massively parallel hardware deployments, primarily for the purposes of on-demand video.
Sirius Systems Technology
company
Psystar Corporation
company
Scientific Data Systems
American computer company
Apricot Computers
known as Applied Computer Techniques until 1985, a computer services company