Lexikon's History of Computing

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Apple Computer

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Atari

Bell Labs

Bletchley Park (UK)

Bolt, Beranek and Newman ("BBN")

Burroughs Adding Machine Company

Commodore Business Machines

Compaq Computer Corporation
See also Hewlett-Packard below.

Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR)

Control Data Corporation (CDC)

Cray Research Company

Data General

Hewlett-Packard
HP and Compaq merged their companies in May of 2002.
The following links provide information regarding this historic merger.
HP Letter to Customers
HP - Compaq Merger Summary
HP-Compaq Merger Facts

Honeywell Chronology

IBM: Brief Chronology

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Lanier Worldwide, Inc.

Microsoft Corporation

MITS (Altair)

Prehistory of UNISYS

Sillicon Valley

Toshiba America

Wang

Xerox PARC

Zenith Data Systems (Heath-Zenith)

Zilog

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