The following is a list of notable
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manufacturers.
Current
- ABS Computer Technologies (Parent: Newegg
Newegg.com Inc. is an online retailer of computer hardware and software. It is based in City of Industry, California. The company was founded by Fred Chang, a Taiwanese immigrant, in 2001.- History :...
)
- Acer
- eMachines
eMachines is a brand of entry level PCs, based in Irvine, California. eMachines employed about 135 employees and sold between 1 to 2 million computers each year before its purchase on January 30, 2004, by rival Gateway Computers...
- Gateway
Gateway Computer Corporation, is a computer hardware company headquartered in Irvine, California, USA which develops, manufactures, supports, and markets a wide range of personal computers, computer monitors, servers, and computer accessories...
- Packard Bell
Packard Bell is a Dutch computer manufacturer and a subsidiary of Acer. The name was previously used by Packard Bell, an American radio manufacturer founded in 1926. In 1986, Israeli investors bought the name for a newly formed personal computer manufacturer. Originally the company produced...
- aigo
aigo is the trade name of Chinese consumer electronics company Beijing Huaqi Information Digital Technology Co Ltd. aigo should not be capitalized, much like "iPod".-History:...
- AIRIS
- Aleutia
Aleutia Limited is a privately-owned computer manufacturer based in London, United Kingdom. Its product range consists of desktop and server computers, specialising in low-power desktop computers.- History :...
- AMAX Information Technologies
AMAX is a privately held, ISO 9001 certified, enterprise computing solutions company that provides custom-built servers, storage, clusters, workstations and various high performance computing systems for corporate, scientific, military, educational and governmental use.- Location & Facilities :In...
- Apple Inc.
- Ascendant Computers
- Asus
ASUSTeK Computer Incorporated is a multinational computer technology and consumer electronics product manufacturer headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Its product range includes motherboards, desktops, laptops, monitors, tablet PCs, servers and mobile phones...
- AVADirect
AVADirect, Inc. is an American computer manufacturing company located in Twinsburg, Ohio near Cleveland. They specialize in highly customized computer systems including Microsoft Windows and Linux servers, high-end workstations and gaming systems, business PCs, and notebooks.AVADirect is a GSA...
- AXIOO International
AXIOO International is a computer and electronics manufacturer based in Singapore.It is currently one of many Asian Classmate PC Supplier...
- Axiomtek
- Belinea
Belinea is a German manufacturer of PCs, notebooks and computer monitors.-History:The name Belinea was first used as a brand of computer monitors manufactured by Maxdata, which were primarily sold in Europe. The name first appeared in 1991. Belineas are known for their unique appearance with a big...
- BenQ
BenQ Corporation is a Taiwanese multi-national company that sells and markets consumer electronics, computing and communications devices under the "BenQ" brand name, which stands for the company slogan Bringing Enjoyment and Quality to life .- Company :BenQ sells and markets technology products,...
- Bluechip Computer
- Cerise Computers
- Certified Data
- Chip PC
Chip PC Technologies is a developer and manufacturer of thin client solutions for server-based computing; where in a network architecture applications are deployed, managed and can be fully executed on the server.-History:...
- Clevo
- Commodore Gaming
- TIME Computers INC.
- Cray
Cray Inc. is an American supercomputer manufacturer based in Seattle, Washington. The company's predecessor, Cray Research, Inc. , was founded in 1972 by computer designer Seymour Cray. Seymour Cray went on to form the spin-off Cray Computer Corporation , in 1989, which went bankrupt in 1995,...
- CyberPower PC
- Cybernet Manufacturing
- Dell
Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest...
- Alienware
Alienware is an American computer hardware subsidary of Dell, Inc. It mainly assembles third party components into desktops and laptops with custom enclosures for high-performance gaming. These products also support graphically intense applications such as video editing, simulation, and audio editing...
- Dera
Dera or Dehra is a Punjabi and Seraiki language word meaning camp or settlement.Towns in India with Dera in their names.* Dera Baba Nanak, Gurdaspur, Punjab* Dehradun, capital of Uttarakhand* Dehra, Himachal...
- Dino PC
- Doxx Computer
- Elitegroup Computer Systems
Elitegroup Computer Systems Co., Ltd , is a Taiwan-based electronics firm. It is the fifth largest PC motherboard manufacturer in the world , with production reaching 24 million units in 2002...
- Falcon Northwest
Falcon Northwest is a personal computer manufacturing company located in Medford, Oregon, USA which was founded in 1992 by its current president, Kelt Reeves. The company began its existence focusing on high-end systems for Flight Simulation...
- Fujitsu
Fujitsu Technology Solutions is one of the leading European IT vendors with a presence in all key markets in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, plus India...
- Gaming PC
Enthusiast computing refers to a sub-culture of personal computer users who focus on extremely high-performance computers. Manufacturers of performance-oriented parts typically include an enthusiast model in their offerings...
- Gericom
Gericom was an Austrian computer equipment manufacturer, based in Linz, Upper Austria. The company was bought by Quanmax, Inc and subsequently converted to Quanmax AG.-History:...
- Gigabyte
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of computer hardware products best known for its motherboards. The company is publicly held and traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange .-Company:...
- Groupe Bull
-External links:* * — Friends, co-workers and former employees of Bull and Honeywell* *...
- HLBS Tech (P) Limited
- Hardcore Computer
Hardcore Computer Inc. is a computer manufacturing company located in Rochester, Minnesota, USA which was founded in 2006. The company custom designs and manufactures liquid blade servers, professional workstations and desktop computers...
- Hasee
- Hewlett-Packard
- Hindustan Computers Ltd.
- Hitachi
Hitachi is a multinational corporation specializing in high-technology.Hitachi may also refer to:*Hitachi, Ibaraki, Japan*Hitachi province, former province of Japan*Prince Hitachi and Princess Hitachi, members of the Japanese imperial family...
- Howard Computers
- Ibuypower
- Integrated Intellect Corporation
- Itautec
Itautec is a Brazilian company that was founded in 1979. The company is part of Itaúsa: , which is the second largest private Brazilian business group by sales volume....
- IGEL
IGEL Technology is a company which manufacturers a type of computer hardware called thin clients. Headquartered in Bremen, Germany, IGEL is part of the privately owned 201 year old Melchers Group and has locations in the United States, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Singapore.-History:In 1989,...
- Jetta International
Jetta International is an American OEM manufacturer and designer of computer laptops, mainly operating in the East Coast. The company was established in 1991, and it is based in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey , where the only manufacturing plant is settled.Jetbook, the laptop series manufactured by...
- Kohjinsha
Kohjinsha is 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...
- Kontron AG
Kontron AG is a German-based multinational company which designs and manufactures embedded computer modules, boards and systems.Kontron AG serves OEMs, system integrators and application providers of different market segments...
- Lanix
Lanix is a Mexican electronics company based in Hermosillo, Sonora, Mexico. It is Mexico's largest domestically owned electronics company, and sells a wide array of both consumer and professional electronics...
- Lanner Inc
- LanSlide Gaming PCs
LanSlide Gaming PCs is a privately-owned, internet-based, gaming computer company located in Schenectady, New York. Specializing in high end portable gaming desktops, all of the company's computers are based around portable designs and marketed towards LAN party enthusiasts.-History:LanSlide Gaming...
- Lenovo-IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
merged with Lenovo
- LG
LG Corp. is the second-largest South Korean conglomerate company following Samsung, and it is headquartered in the LG Twin Towers in Yeouido-dong, Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. LG produces electronics, chemicals, and telecommunications products and operates subsidiaries like LG Electronics, LG Display,...
- Maingear
MAINGEAR is an American privately held boutique computer manufacturer headquartered in Kenilworth, New Jersey. MAINGEAR specializes in custom gaming computers, desktops, custom laptops, media center computers, and workstations which are built and supported in the United States.-History:MAINGEAR was...
- MDG Computers
MDG Computers Canada Inc. is a Canadian-owned manufacturer, distributor and retailer of personal computers , notebooks and related products and accessories...
- Mecer
- Medion
Medion AG is a German consumer electronics company. It operates in Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific region. The main products are computers and notebooks, but also TVs, refrigerators, toasters, and fitness equipment. The company is becoming popular in Europe but has had mixed success...
- Mesh Computers
MESH Computers is a computer company based in London, England, owned by Mehdi Sherafati. As well as being a PC manufacturer, the company also sells a number of peripherals and components through their website....
- Micro-Star International
Micro-Star International Co., Ltd is a Taiwan-based electronics company and one of the world's largest motherboard and video card manufacturers.-Overview:MSI is one of the top three motherboard and video card manufacturers worldwide...
- Micro Center
Micro Center is an American computer department store founded in Columbus, Ohio in 1979 by two former Radio Shack employees. The first Micro Center store was a . storefront located in the Lane Avenue Shopping Center in Upper Arlington, Ohio...
- MiTAC
MiTAC International Corp. is a Taiwan electronics company established December 8, 1982. It is a subsidiary of MiTAC Inc. ....
- Motion computing
Motion Computing is a developer of slate Tablet PC computers located in Austin, Texas. Motion Computing focuses on vertical markets such as healthcare and government, though they have released home-oriented systems like their M-series which was also sold through Gateway Inc...
- NEC Corp
, a Japanese multinational IT company, has its headquarters in Minato, Tokyo, Japan. NEC, part of the Sumitomo Group, provides information technology and network solutions to business enterprises, communications services providers and government....
- NEO
Neo is a prefix from the ancient Greek word for young "neos" which derived from the Proto-Indo European word for new "néwos".Neo may refer to:* Neo , the protagonist of the Matrix film series...
- Neos Computers
- Novatech
- Nut Inc.
- Ohava
- Olidata
Olidata is an Italian computer system manufacturer. The company was founded in Cesena, Italy in 1982 by Carlo Rossi and Adolfo Savini as a limited liability company . Olidata specializes in software development...
- Olivetti
Olivetti S.p.A. is an Italian manufacturer of computers, printers and other business machines.- Founding :The company was founded as a typewriter manufacturer in 1908 in Ivrea, near Turin, by Camillo Olivetti. The firm was mainly developed by his son Adriano Olivetti...
- Oracle Corporation
Oracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
- Origin PC
Origin PC is a custom personal computer manufacturing company located in Miami, Florida. Founded by former employees of Alienware in 2009, Origin PC assembles third party components to create high-performance gaming desktops and laptops.-History:...
- Panasonic
Panasonic is an international brand name for Japanese electric products manufacturer Panasonic Corporation, which was formerly known as Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd...
- Polywell
A polywell device is a type of fusion reactor that was originated by Robert Bussard under a U.S. Navy research contract. It traps electrons in a magnetic confinement inside its hollow center. The negatively charged electrons then accelerate positively charged ions for the purpose of achieving...
- Positivo Informatica
Positivo Informática is a Brazilian technology company headquartered in Curitiba. It is the Information Technology arm of the larger organization Grupo Positvo...
- Prolink
- Puget Systems
Puget Systems is a custom computer business based in Kent, Washington. They operate primarily through their website, and sell a mixture of custom and preconfigured computers including laptops, desktops, and servers. The business was founded by Jon Bach in 2000....
- Radioactive PC
- Rain Computers
- Redfox
- Red Wing Computer & I.T. Services
- RP Infosystems Pvt Ltd
- Ramos I.T. Consulting,Inc.
- Sager Notebook Computers
Sager Midern Computer, Inc., is an OEM computer manufacturer specializing in laptop computers. The company is publicly referred to as Sager Notebook Computer, as indicated by their website. Sager laptops are manufactured by Clevo which are also sold under many other brand names. Sager is the...
- Samsung Electronics
Samsung Electronics is a South Korean multinational electronics and information technology company headquartered in Samsung Town, Seoul...
- Shuttle Inc.
Shuttle is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of motherboards, barebone computers, complete PC systems, and monitors. Throughout the last 10 years, Shuttle has been one of the world's top 10 motherboard manufacturers, and gained fame in 2001 with the introduction of the Shuttle SV24, one of the world's...
- SGI
Silicon Graphics, Inc. was a manufacturer of high-performance computing solutions, including computer hardware and software, founded in 1981 by Jim Clark...
- Socket Mobile Inc.
- Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
- Stealth Computer
- Stone Computers
- Systemax
- Circuit City
- CompUSA
- TigerDirect
- System76
- Tangerine Inc.
- Tadpole Computer
Tadpole Computer is a manufacturer of rugged UNIX workstations and thin client laptops and lightweight servers. Tadpole is based in Cupertino, California.- Products :...
- The PC Heaven
- ThinkPenguin.com
- Toshiba
is a multinational electronics and electrical equipment corporation headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is a diversified manufacturer and marketer of electrical products, spanning information & communications equipment and systems, Internet-based solutions and services, electronic components and...
- TriGem Computer, Inc
- Averatec
Averatec is a South Korean laptop computer brand owned by TG Sambo, the country's first computer maker. The brand first entered the American market in July 2003 and has since grown 360% to the fourth largest laptop maker, overtaking Sony in 2004 with a market share of 11.6% according to Current...
- Tyan
Tyan Computer Corporation , is a subsidiary of MiTAC International, and a manufacturer of computer motherboards, including models for both Intel and AMD processors...
- Unisys
Unisys Corporation , headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a long established business whose core products now involves computing and networking.-History:...
- V3 Gaming PC
V3 Gaming PC is a manufacturer of custom-built personal computers headquartered in Lomita, California. The company, founded in 2010 by industry veterans, touts compatibility with 3D gaming technologies such as NVIDIA 3D Vision as a selling point for its products...
- Velocity Micro
Velocity Micro is a privately held computer manufacturer located in Richmond, VA , specializing in custom high-end computers. Its high-performance product line includes gaming systems, notebooks, netbooks, home servers, digital media creation workstations, home and home office PCs, home...
- ViewSonic
ViewSonic Corporation is a manufacturer and provider of visual technology, specifically CRT monitors, liquid crystal displays, projectors, plasma displays, HDTV technology, and mobile products, including Mini and All-in-One PCs and wireless monitors....
- Viglen
Viglen Ltd provides IT products and services, including storage systems, servers, workstations and data/voice communications equipment and services.- History :...
- WidowPC
WidowPC, based in Boulder, Colorado, shipped the world's first dual-core CPU laptop based on the AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ and debuted at the AMD press-only event at CES 2005 in Las Vegas...
- Wortmann
Wortmann AG is a German computer manufacturer, based in Hüllhorst, North Rhine-Westphalia. The main products are computers, notebooks and servers, as well as computer monitors and thin clients. The majority of their products are assembled in Germany and are marketed under their own brand, "Terra"...
- Wyse Technology Inc.
Wyse Technology is an American company that is a leading manufacturer in Cloud Client Computing. Products include thin client hardware and software as well as desktop virtualization. Other products include cloud software-supporting desktop computers, laptops, and mobile devices...
- Xitrix Computer Corporation
- Zenith Computers
Zenith Computers Limited is the second largest Personal Computer manufacturer in India]. The firm produces desktop and laptop computers. Its head office is located in Mumbai, with 15 branches in India...
- Zinox Computers
- Zoostorm
Zoostorm are a UK-based manufacturer of PC systems, computers, laptops, notebooks and peripherals. The Zoostorm brand is owned by CMS Computers.-Fizzbook:A small ruggedized laptop aimed towards children and education...
- Zotac
ZOTAC International Limited is a computer hardware company based in Hong Kong producing consumer electronics in the form of motherboards , Mini PCs, Nettops, and Nvidia based graphics cards...
Defunct
- Alliant Computer Systems
Alliant Computer Systems was a computer company that designed and manufactured parallel computing systems. Together with Pyramid Technology and Sequent Computer Systems, Alliant's machines pioneered the symmetric multiprocessing market...
- Ceased operations in 1992.
- Altos Computer Systems
Altos Computer Systems was founded in 1977 by David G. Jackson.It was acquired by Acer in 1990.- External links :*...
- acquired by Acer in 1990.
- Amdahl Corporation
Amdahl Corporation is an information technology company which specializes in IBM mainframe-compatible computer products. Founded in 1970 by Dr. Gene Amdahl, a former IBM employee, it has been a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu since 1997...
- A wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsuis a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....
since 1997.
- Apollo Computer
Apollo Computer, Inc., founded 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts by William Poduska and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s...
- Acquired by Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
in 1989.
- Apricot Computers
Apricot Computers is a British manufacturer of business personal computers, originally founded in 1965 as "Applied Computer Techniques" , changing its name to Apricot Computers, Ltd. in the 1980s...
- ceased operations in 1999.
- Ardent Computer
The Ardent Computer Corporation was a graphics minicomputer manufacturing company. The systems also used the Intel i860 as graphics co-processors. The company went through a series of mergers and re-organizations and changed names several times as their venture capital funders attempted to find a...
- Merged with Stellar Computer to form Stardent in 1989.
- AST Computers, LLC - Exited the computer market in 2001.
- Atari Corporation
Atari Corporation was a manufacturer of computers and video game consoles from 1984 to 1996. Atari Corp. was founded in July of 1984 when Warner Communications sold the home computing and game console divisions of Atari to Jack Tramiel. Its chief products were the Atari ST, Atari XE, Atari 7800,...
- AT&T
AT&T Inc. is an American multinational telecommunications corporation headquartered in Whitacre Tower, Dallas, Texas, United States. It is the largest provider of mobile telephony and fixed telephony in the United States, and is also a provider of broadband and subscription television services...
- Austin Computer Systems
- Burroughs
The Burroughs Corporation was a major American manufacturer of business equipment. The company was founded in 1886 as the American Arithmometer Company and was assimilated in the 1986 merger that resulted in the creation of Unisys. The company's history paralleled many of the major developments in...
- Merged with SperrySperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century...
to form UnisysUnisys Corporation , headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a long established business whose core products now involves computing and networking.-History:...
in 1986.
- Celerity Computing
Celerity Computing Inc. was a San Diego, California vendor of Unix based "supermini" computers. Celerity Computing was founded in May 1983 by Steve Vallender, Nick Aneshansley and Andrew McCroklin....
- Acquired by Floating Point SystemsFloating Point Systems Inc. was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad....
in 1988.
- Commodore International
Commodore is the commonly used name for Commodore Business Machines , the U.S.-based home computer manufacturer and electronics manufacturer headquartered in West Chester, Pennsylvania, which also housed Commodore's corporate parent company, Commodore International Limited...
- declared bankruptcy in 1994.
- Compaq
Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....
- Acquired by Hewlett-PackardHewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including...
in 2002.
- CompuAdd
CompuAdd Corporation was an Austin, Texas manufacturer of personal computers. It assembled its product from components manufactured by others. CompuAdd created generic PC clone computers, but unlike most clone makers, had a large engineering staff...
- filed for bankruptcy in 1993.
- Computer Automation
Computer Automation Inc. was a computer manufacturer founded by David H Methvin in 1968, based originally in Irvine, California, USA.In 1981 they moved to Boulder, Colorado, and in 1985 moved back to Irvine, California...
- Control Data Corporation (CDC)
Control Data Corporation was a supercomputer firm. For most of the 1960s, it built the fastest computers in the world by far, only losing that crown in the 1970s after Seymour Cray left the company to found Cray Research, Inc....
- Shrank as units were spun off from 1988 to 1992; remainder is now CeridianCeridian Corporation is a global business services company in the human resources, transportation and retail markets, serving businesses worldwide with employees in the USA, Canada, Europe and Mauritius. It was a publicly traded company on the New York Stock Exchange until it was acquired in 2007...
.
- Convex Computer
Convex Computer Corporation was a company that developed, manufactured and marketed vector minisupercomputers and supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC microprocessors, and in 1995,...
- purchased by Hewlett-Packard in 1995
- Corona Data Systems
Corona Data Systems, later renamed Cordata, was an American personal computer company. It was one of the earliest IBM PC compatible computer system companies. Manufacturing was primarily done by Daewoo of Korea, which became a major investor in the company and ultimately the owner...
- among the original "IBM PC Compatible" clone makers
- Cromemco
Cromemco was a Mountain View, California microcomputer company known for its high-end Z80-based S-100 bus computers in the early days of the home computer revolution. The Cromemco Dazzler was the first color graphics card available for personal computers....
- Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...
- Acquired by CompaqCompaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard....
in 1998.
- e-WIS computers
- Eagle Computer
Eagle Computer of Los Gatos, California was an early microcomputer manufacturing company. Spun off from Audio-Visual Laboratories , it first sold a line of popular CP/M computers which were highly praised in the computer magazines of the day. After the IBM PC was launched, Eagle produced the...
- ceased operations in 1986.
- Eckert–Mauchly Computer - Acquired by Remington Rand
Remington Rand was an early American business machines manufacturer, best known originally as a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation as the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers but with antecedents in Remington Arms in the early nineteenth century. For a time, the...
in 1950.
- Elonex
Elonex is a computer hardware and related IT services company based in Birmingham, UK, that develops eBook Readers, Android eTouch Tablets, and other consumer electronics.The Elonex brand was founded in 1986, in London....
— Sells tablets (as of 2011)
- Encore Computer
Encore Computer was an early pioneer in the parallel computing market, based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Although offering a number of system designs beginning in 1985, they were never as well known as other companies in this field such as Pyramid Technology, Alliant, and the most similar...
- Acquired by Gores Technology Group in 1998 and renamed to Encore Real Time Computing, which Gores then sold to Compro Computer Services in 2002.
- English Electric
English Electric was a British industrial manufacturer. Founded in 1918, it initially specialised in industrial electric motors and transformers...
- merged into International Computers Limited.
- Everex
Everex is a manufacturer of desktop and notebook personal computers. It was established in 1983 and headquartered in Fremont, California. The company was founded by Steve Hui, John Lee and Wayne Cheung. In 1988, Everex was the leader in tape backup sales with half the world market...
- US subsidiary closed its doors in 2009.
- Evesham
Evesham is a market town and a civil parish in the Local Authority District of Wychavon in the county of Worcestershire, England with a population of 22,000. It is located roughly equidistant between Worcester, Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon...
- merged into TIMEGranville Technology Group Ltd was a British computer retailer based in Simonstone, near Burnley, Lancashire.Selling computers under several brands - Time; Tiny; Colossus; MJN - it sold mainly through mail-order, though late in its life added a chain of stores in the UK that traded as The Computer...
Computers.
- Fountain Technologies - parent company of Quantex Microsystems filed for bankruptcy in 2000.
- Franklin Computer Corporation - exited computer hardware business and reorganized into Franklin Electronic Publishers
Franklin Electronic Publishers, Incorporated is an American consumer electronics manufacturer based in Burlington, New Jersey, founded in 1981. Since the mid-1980s it has primarily created and sold hand-held electronic references, such as spelling correctors, dictionaries, translation devices,...
.
- General Electric
General Electric Company , or GE, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation incorporated in Schenectady, New York and headquartered in Fairfield, Connecticut, United States...
- Sold its computer division to HoneywellHoneywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
in 1970.
- Gould Electronics
Gould Electronics Inc. -- founded in 1884 and based in Chandler, Arizona -- is a company involved in the electronics and semiconductor industries. They make printed circuit materials for use by electronics manufacturers. Having acquired Systems Engineering Laboratories Gould became involved in the...
- Sold its computer division to Nippon Mining in 1988, who in turn sold it to Encore ComputerEncore Computer was an early pioneer in the parallel computing market, based in Marlborough, Massachusetts. Although offering a number of system designs beginning in 1985, they were never as well known as other companies in this field such as Pyramid Technology, Alliant, and the most similar...
later that year.
- Honeywell
Honeywell International, Inc. is a major conglomerate company that produces a variety of consumer products, engineering services, and aerospace systems for a wide variety of customers, from private consumers to major corporations and governments....
- Sold its computer division to Groupe Bull-External links:* * — Friends, co-workers and former employees of Bull and Honeywell* *...
in 1991.
- International Computers and Tabulators
International Computers and Tabulators or ICT was formed in 1959 by a merger of the British Tabulating Machine Company and Powers-Samas. In 1963 it also added the business computer divisions of Ferranti...
- merged into International Computers Limited.
- International Computers Limited - now part of Fujitsu
is a Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It is the world's third-largest IT services provider measured by revenues....
.
- Kaypro
Kaypro Corporation, commonly called Kaypro, was an American home/personal computer manufacturer of the 1980s. The company was founded by Non-Linear Systems to develop computers to compete with the then-popular Osborne 1 portable microcomputer...
- filed for bankruptcy in 1992.
- Leading Edge
Leading Edge Hardware Products, Inc., was a computer manufacturer in the 1980s and the 1990s. It was based in Westborough, Massachusetts.-History:...
- Mid '80s leader in PC Clone for the masses - Manufacturing done first by Mitsubishi then Daewoo
- Liebermann Computers - Ended in 2004.
- Magnuson Computer Systems
Magnuson Computer Systems was a manufacturer of IBM-compatible mainframes. The Magnuson M80 range was available from the late 1970s and enjoyed limited success at a time when IBM struggled to ship machines. The company declared bankruptcy in early 1982 after IBM fixed its production problems,...
- filed for bankruptcy in early 1980s.
- Maxdata
Maxdata is a German based company that produces IT products, such as computers, notebooks and Monitors, it has been one of the top ten European IT producers for several years...
(Germany) - Insolvent in 2008; warranty for existing products taken over by then the Swiss Belinea AG (see BelineaBelinea is a German manufacturer of PCs, notebooks and computer monitors.-History:The name Belinea was first used as a brand of computer monitors manufactured by Maxdata, which were primarily sold in Europe. The name first appeared in 1991. Belineas are known for their unique appearance with a big...
), now owned by Bluechip Computer. Warranty for Belinea products purchased before 1 November 2008 is not serviced anymore by Bluechip Computer.
- Mitsubishi Electronics - Closed computer systems division in 1990 Manufactured systems for Leading Edge and Sperry-Unisys
- MPC
MPC Corporation was a United States computer-hardware company based in Nampa, Idaho, USA, best known for providing desktops, notebooks, servers and services to customers in the federal, state and local government, education, small and medium business, and consumer markets...
(formerly MicronPC) - Filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy on November 7, 2008. Efforts at reorganization failed.
- Multiflow Computer
Multiflow Computer, Inc. , founded in April, 1984 near New Haven, Connecticut, USA, was a manufacturer and seller of minisupercomputer hardware and software embodying the VLIW design style...
- Ceased operations in 1990.
- NeXT
Next, Inc. was an American computer company headquartered in Redwood City, California, that developed and manufactured a series of computer workstations intended for the higher education and business markets...
- acquired by Apple ComputerApple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...
in 1996.
- Northgate Computer Systems
Northgate Computer Systems, Inc., based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota, USA, was a mail-order personal computer company, founded in 1987 by Arthur Lazere....
- Acquired by Lan Plus in 1997, after filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1994; Lan Plus later renamed itself Northgate Innovations.
- Osborne Computer
The Osborne Computer Corporation was a pioneering maker of portable computers.-The Osborne 1:After Adam Osborne sold his computer book-publishing company to McGraw-Hill in 1979, he decided to sell an inexpensive portable computer with bundled software and hired Lee Felsenstein to design it...
- Ceased operations in 1985; rights to the Osbourne brand were sold to Mikrolog.
- PC Brand - acquired by Tandon Corporation
Tandon Corporation was a disk drive and PC manufacturer founded in the mid-1970s by "Jugi" Tandon. The company's original purpose was to provide magnetic read-write heads for the then-burgeoning floppy-drive market. Due to the labor-intensive nature of the product, production was carried out in...
in 1991.
- Printaform
- Processor Technology
Processor Technology Corporation was a microcomputer company founded by Bob Marsh and Gary Ingram in April 1975. Its best known product is the Sol-20 computer.-History:...
- Ceased operations in 1979.
- Psystar - Under 2009 permanent injunction to stop selling computers with Apple's Mac OS X
Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...
operating system. Psystar's web site has disappeared.
- Pyramid Technology
Pyramid Technology Corporation was a computer company that produced a number of RISC-based minicomputers at the upper end of the performance range. They also became the second company to ship a multiprocessor Unix system , in 1985, which formed the basis of their product line into the early 1990s...
- Acquired by SiemensSiemens AG is a German multinational conglomerate company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It is the largest Europe-based electronics and electrical engineering company....
in 1995.
- Radio Shack
Radio shack is a slang term for a room or structure for housing radio equipment.-History:In the early days of radio, equipment was experimental and home-built. The first radio transmitters used a noisy spark to generate radio waves and were often housed in a garage or shed. When radio was first...
- RCA
RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...
- Exited the computer business in 1971; Sperry RandSperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century...
took over RCA's installed base in 1972.
- Remington Rand
Remington Rand was an early American business machines manufacturer, best known originally as a typewriter manufacturer and in a later incarnation as the manufacturer of the UNIVAC line of mainframe computers but with antecedents in Remington Arms in the early nineteenth century. For a time, the...
- Acquired by SperrySperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century...
to form Sperry Rand in 1955.
- Scientific Data Systems
Scientific Data Systems, or SDS, was an American computer company founded in September 1961 by Max Palevsky, a veteran of Packard Bell and Bendix, along with eleven other computer scientists. SDS was an early adopter of integrated circuits in computer design and the first to employ silicon...
- Acquired by XeroxXerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
in 1969.
- Sequent Computer Systems
Sequent Computer Systems, or Sequent, was a computer company that designed and manufactured multiprocessing computer systems. They were among the pioneers in high-performance symmetric multiprocessing open systems, innovating in both hardware and software Sequent Computer Systems, or Sequent, was...
- Acquired by IBMInternational Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
in 1999.
- Simply Computers - merged into Misco/Systemax.
- Sinclair Research - acquired by Amstrad
Amstrad is a British electronics company, now wholly owned by BSkyB. As of 2006, Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky Digital interactive boxes....
in 1986.
- Solbourne Computer
Solbourne Computer Inc. was originally a vendor of computer systems based in Longmont, Colorado, USA, at first 52% owned by Matsushita. In the late 1980s and early '90s, the company produced a range of computer workstations and servers based on the SPARC microprocessor architecture, largely...
- Acquired by Deloitte Consulting in 2008.
- Sperry
Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century...
- Merged with Burroughs to form UnisysUnisys Corporation , headquartered in Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, United States, and incorporated in Delaware, is a long established business whose core products now involves computing and networking.-History:...
in 1986.
- Sperry Rand
Sperry Corporation was a major American equipment and electronics company whose existence spanned more than seven decades of the twentieth century...
- Dropped "Rand" from its name in 1978 and continued as Sperry.
- Stardent - Ceased operations in 1992.
- Stellar Computer - Merged with Ardent Computer
The Ardent Computer Corporation was a graphics minicomputer manufacturing company. The systems also used the Intel i860 as graphics co-processors. The company went through a series of mergers and re-organizations and changed names several times as their venture capital funders attempted to find a...
to form Stardent in 1989.
- Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982...
- A wholly owned subsidiary of OracleOracle Corporation is an American multinational computer technology corporation that specializes in developing and marketing hardware systems and enterprise software products – particularly database management systems...
since 2009.
- Systems Engineering Laboratories
Systems Engineering Laboratories was a manufacturer of minicomputers in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. It was one of the first 32-bit realtime computer system manufacturers...
- Acquired by Gould ElectronicsGould Electronics Inc. -- founded in 1884 and based in Chandler, Arizona -- is a company involved in the electronics and semiconductor industries. They make printed circuit materials for use by electronics manufacturers. Having acquired Systems Engineering Laboratories Gould became involved in the...
in 1981 and became Gould's computer division.
- Tandy Corporation
Tandy Corporation was a family-owned leather goods company based in Fort Worth, Texas. Tandy was founded in 1919 as a leather supply store, and acquired RadioShack in 1963. The Tandy name was dropped in May 2000, when RadioShack Corporation was made the official name.-History:Tandy began in 1919...
- Previous parent company of RadioShackRadioShack Corporation is an American franchise of electronics retail stores in the United States, as well as parts of Europe, South America and Africa. As of 2008, RadioShack reported net sales and operating revenues of $4.81 billion. The headquarters of RadioShack is located in Downtown...
, produced the TRS-80TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation's desktop microcomputer model line, sold through Tandy's Radio Shack stores in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The first units, ordered unseen, were delivered in November 1977, and rolled out to the stores the third week of December. The line won popularity with...
and Tandy 1000The Tandy 1000 was the first in a line of more-or-less IBM PC compatible home computer systems produced by the Tandy Corporation for sale in its Radio Shack chain of stores.-Overview:...
and 2000The Tandy 2000 was a personal computer introduced by Radio Shack in late 1983 which used the 8 MHz Intel 80186 microprocessor. By comparison, the IBM PC XT used the older 4.7 MHz 8088 processor, and the IBM PC AT would later use the newer 6 MHz Intel 80286...
IBM PCThe IBM Personal Computer, commonly known as the IBM PC, is the original version and progenitor of the IBM PC compatible hardware platform. It is IBM model number 5150, and was introduced on August 12, 1981...
compatibleIBM PC compatible computers are those generally similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT. Such computers used to be referred to as PC clones, or IBM clones since they almost exactly duplicated all the significant features of the PC architecture, facilitated by various manufacturers' ability to...
computers. Sold their computer division to AST Computers in the early 1990s.
- Tiny Computers - merged into TIME
Granville Technology Group Ltd was a British computer retailer based in Simonstone, near Burnley, Lancashire.Selling computers under several brands - Time; Tiny; Colossus; MJN - it sold mainly through mail-order, though late in its life added a chain of stores in the UK that traded as The Computer...
Computers.
- Wang Laboratories
Wang Laboratories was a computer company founded in 1951 by Dr. An Wang and Dr. G. Y. Chu. The company was successively headquartered in Cambridge , Tewksbury , and finally in Lowell, Massachusetts . At its peak in the 1980s, Wang Laboratories had annual revenues of $3 billion and employed over...
- acquired by GetronicsGetronics N.V. is a company, subsidiary of the Dutch IT & Telecommunications firm KPN since October 2007, focused on creating value for IT Workspace Management Services, Applications & Software Development Services...
in 1999.
- XByte Computers
- Xerox
Xerox Corporation is an American multinational document management corporation that produced and sells a range of color and black-and-white printers, multifunction systems, photo copiers, digital production printing presses, and related consulting services and supplies...
- Exited the computer business.
- Zeos
ZEOS [ZEOS International, Ltd.] is a PC manufacturer based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Originally based in New Brighton, Minnesota and founded by Gregory E. Herrick, the company incorporated in Minnesota in 1981. Prior to manufacturing PCs, the company was called NPC Electronics. NPC was a contract...
- merged into MPC CorporationMPC Corporation was a United States computer-hardware company based in Nampa, Idaho, USA, best known for providing desktops, notebooks, servers and services to customers in the federal, state and local government, education, small and medium business, and consumer markets...
in 1996, which in turn filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2008.
- Zepto Computers A/S
Zepto Computers A/S was a Danish computer company founded in 2002. They specialized in customizable laptops and TVs, rebadging and branding notebook computer barebones of OEMs/ODMs like Compal for sale. Zepto operated in Denmark and Sweden, and throughout the rest of Europe and in Australia via...
(Denmark) - On 17 November 2009 Zepto Computer was declared bankrupt, after several tries to save the company.
- Sharp Corporation
is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...
- Amstrad
Amstrad is a British electronics company, now wholly owned by BSkyB. As of 2006, Amstrad's main business is manufacturing Sky Digital interactive boxes....
- Data General
Data General was one of the first minicomputer firms from the late 1960s. Three of the four founders were former employees of Digital Equipment Corporation. Their first product, the Data General Nova, was a 16-bit minicomputer...
- Tulip Computers
Tulip Computers NV was a Dutch computer manufacturer that manufactured PC clones. It was founded in 1979, and listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange in 1984....
- changed its name to Nedfield NV in 2008, pronounced bankrupt in 3 September 2009.
- Gladius Computer
- Domtech multimedia communication ltd/ system development and networking
- Egenera
Egenera, Inc. is a multinational converged infrastructure technology company with corporate headquarters in Marlborough, Massachusetts in the United States. Egenera designs, manufactures, and sells blade servers as well as converged infrastructure management software, and offers consulting and...
- Vigor Gaming
Vigor Gaming was a privately held manufacturer of enthusiast level personal computers based in City of Industry, California. The company was founded in 2004 by several former employees and the former owner of competing company. Vigor Gaming Computers are designed specifically for gaming...
(USA) - Disappeared in March 2010
- e-WIS Computers
- VoodooPC
Voodoo Computers Inc. or VoodooPC was a luxury personal computer brand owned by Hewlett Packard. Voodoo was originally started as a niche PC maker in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. It was founded in 1991, and in September of 2006 Hewlett Packard announced they would acquire Voodoo. Voodoo specialized...
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