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Activision Founded 1 October 1979 by a former music industry executive, Jim Levy, a venture capitalist Richard Muchmore, and ex-Atari programmers David Crane, Larry Kaplan, Alan Miller and Bob...
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Activenture Corporation In 1984 Gary Kildall formed Activenture Corporation to publish optical-discs. In 1985 it announced it would publish Grolier’s Encyclopedia in a CD ROM format. It was later...
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Active Book Company In 1988 Hermann Hauser, co-founder of Acorn Computers, left Olivetti (who had acquired Acorn) and founded the Active Book Company personally funding it with £1m. AT&T acquired...
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ACT/Apricot Computers Founded in 1965 as ‘Applied Computer Techniques’. in 1982 it contracted with Chuck Peddle‘s Victor Technology to distribute the ‘Victor 9000′ as the ‘ACT Sirius 1′ in the UK...
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Acorn Computers Ltd Initially founded by Chris Curry and Herman Hauser as Cambridge Processor Unit Ltd in 1978 to develop a microprocessor-based controller for a fruit machine for Ace Coin Equipment....
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ACM – Association for Computing Machinery Founded in 1947, by Edmund Callis Berkeley and Richard W Hamming, as the world’s first scientific and educational computing society. Today it is managed...
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Acer Inc Acer was founded by Stan Shih, his wife Carolyn Yeh, and a group of five others in 1976 and named as Multitech, based in Taiwan. Started with the Micro-Professor MPF-I training kit, and...
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Ace Coin Equipment Chris Curry and Herman Hauser founded Cambridge Processor Unit, that would become Acorn Computers Ltd. Ace Coin Equipment, gave them their first contract to provide fruit...
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Accolade Co-founded by Alan Miller and Bob Whitehead in 1984. Chose the name to come alphabetically before their previous operation Activision. Focussed initially on games for home computers – then...
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Acclaim Entertainment Co-founded in 1987 by Greg Fischbach and named deliberately to come before Activision in the alphabet. It initially concentrated on video games software the operation had bases...
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Access Technology Distributor for SuperComp, a spreadsheet programme written by Jonathan Sachs, operating as Concentric Data Systems – one of the roots of Lotus 1-2-3 Links to wikiPCpedia:- S320...
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Academic American Encyclopaedia English-language encyclopedia first published in 1980, acquired in turn by a VNU subsidiary, Nielsen then Grolier. Grolier has published it under various names –...
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A/S Regnecentralen Founded on 12 October 1955 as the first Danish computer operation, initially as a computing service bureau for Danish government, military and research users. Led by Niels Ivar Bech...
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A C Nielsen Founded in in 1923 by Arthur C Nielsen Sr to provide marketeers reliable information about their marketing campaigns, now globally based. Mentioned here because it made an early use of...
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A B Dick Founded back in 1884 and primarily a ‘Mimeograph’ manufacturer – noteworthy here for the approach to A B Dick maded by Hal Chamberlin Jr and his Technology Unlimited Inc operation seeking to...
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3M Company In 1971 introduced a ¼” magnetic tape drive and cartridge for desktop computers. Suggested by Bill Gates as a potential licensee for Apple‘s OS. Links to wikiPCpedia:- S131, S303 Links to...
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3DO Company Founded by Trip Hawkins (ex-Apple marketeer) and R J Mical. It was formed by Hawkins’ Electronic Arts in partnership with AT&T, LG, Matsushita, MCA, Time Warner… Conceived as a...
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3D Realms Scott Miller founded this operation fromally as Apogee Software Ltd in 1987 to sell ‘Kingdom of Kroz’, George Broussard joined the company as co-owner in 1991. Tended to publish games by...
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3Com Corporation Bob Metcalfe invented Ethernet at Xerox PARC, left to co-found 3Com (name derived from Computers, Communication and Compatibility) in 1979. Co-founded with Bruce Borden, Howard...
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@Home Network Broadband Internet service co-founded by William Randolph Hearst III – acquired and merged with Excite for $6.7bn in January 1999 to become Excite@Home – one of the largest mergers of...
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