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| Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory |
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Employer | Apr 1960 |
Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory was the first company to work on silicon semiconductor devices in what came to be known as Silicon Valley.
In 1956 William Shockley opened Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments in...
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| Tobin Arms | Company |
Tobin Arms was a firearms company started in 1905 in Norwich, Connecticut, USA. It produced side-by-side and double-barrel shotguns in various grades. The company moved to Woodstock, Ontario, Canada in 1909 or 1910. It then made shotguns until 1925...
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| Sunbeam |
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Sunbeam was a British motorcycle marque generally known for high quality.
John Marston, the man who started it all was born in Ludlow, Shropshire, U.K. in 1836, of a minor landowning family. In 1851 at age 15, he was sent to Wolverhampton to be...
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| CRL Group PLC | Computer Game Developer |
CRL Group PLC is a defunct British video game company. Originally CRL stood for "Computer Rentals Ltd." It was based in King's Yard, London and run by Clement Chambers and Ian Ellery. They made a number of adventure games based on horror stories...
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| Armstrong Whitworth | Company |
Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century. Headquartered in Elswick, Newcastle upon Tyne, Armstrong Whitworth engaged in the construction of armament, ship, locomotive,...
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| Acornsoft | Company |
Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and was a major publisher of software for the BBC Micro and Acorn Electron. As well as games, they also produced a large number of educational titles, extra computer languages and business and...
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| MicroProse |
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MicroProse, as a corporation and brand name, has been owned by several entities since its original founding by Sid Meier and Bill Stealey in 1982, as Microprose Software.
Founded in 1982 by Bill Stealey and Sid Meier, Microprose Software, Inc was...
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| Armstrong | Company |
The Armstrong was an English automobile manufactured from 1902 to 1904; "claimed to be the best hill-climber extant", the car featured an 8 hp International engine.
After 1904, vehicle production came under Armstrong-Whitworth.
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| Palace Software |
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Palace Software was a British video game publisher during the 1980s based in London, England. It was notable for the Barbarian and Cauldron series of games for 8-bit home computer platforms, in particular the ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC and Commodore...
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| Ocean Software |
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Ocean Software (or Ocean Software Ltd. and sometimes Ocean of America, Inc. but generally only referred to as Ocean) was one of the biggest Europe video game developer of the 1980s and 90s. The company was founded by David Ward and Jon Woods and...
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| Mirrorsoft | Company |
Mirrorsoft was a game software publisher in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers. It started off with educational software and then moved into games. One offshoot of its printing roots was Fleet Street Publisher on several platforms....
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| RCA |
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Company | 1986 |
RCA Corporation, founded as Radio Corporation of America, was an electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. Today, the RCA trademark is owned by Thomson SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Thomson. The trademark is...
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| Origin Systems |
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Company | 2004 |
Origin Systems, Inc. (sometimes abbreviated as OSI) was a computer game developer based in Austin, Texas that was active from 1983 to 2004. It is most famous for the Ultima, ''Wing Commander'', and ''Crusader'' game franchises.
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| Telecomsoft |
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Telecomsoft was the computer software division of British telecommunications company British Telecom (now BT). It was the owner of the well-known Firebird and Rainbird labels, under which it sold computer games at a variety of price-points.
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| Austin-Healey |
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Austin-Healey was a brand of sports car.
The marque was established through a joint venture arrangement set up in 1952 between Leonard Lord of the Austin division of the British Motor Corporation (BMC) and Donald Healey, a renowned automotive...
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| Nuffield Organisation | Company |
The Nuffield Organisation was an automobile manufacturing company in the United Kingdom. Named after its founder, William Morris, 1st Viscount Nuffield, it was formed in 1938 as the merger of Nuffield's Morris Motor Company (already having acquired...
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| MicroIllusions | Company |
MicroIllusions was a British computer game developer and publisher of the home computer era (late 1970s to early 1990s). MicroIllusions, as a company, was a strong supporter of the Commodore Amiga and would typically release a title on that platform...
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| Domark |
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Domark was a computer and video games software house based in Britain. The name was derived from the given names of its founders, Dominic Wheatley and Mark Strachan. Domark developed and published many games for home computer during the 1980s.
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| Nutting Associates | Company |
Nutting Associates was an early arcade game manufacturer from Mountain View, California, formed in 1968 by Bill Nutting. They introduced a number of mechanical coin-operated games, starting with a quiz game known as Computer Quiz, and moving on to...
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| Tradewest | Company | 1994 |
Tradewest is a now-defunct video game company based in Corsicana, Texas that produced numerous games in the 1980s and early 1990s. The company is best known as the publisher of the Battletoads and Double Dragon series in North America and the PAL...
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| Sirius Software |
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Sirius Software was a publisher of Apple II, Commodore 64 and Atari computer games in the early 1980s.
The company was founded in the early 1980s by Jerry Jewell, and gained attention for its dramatically quick rise to prominence and its equally...
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| British Motor Corporation |
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Company | 1966 |
The British Motor Corporation (BMC) was a UK vehicle company, formed by the merger of the Austin Motor Company and the Nuffield Organisation (parent of the Morris car company, MG, Riley and Wolseley) in 1952.
BMC was the largest British car company...
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| Acclaim Entertainment |
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Company | 2004 |
Acclaim Entertainment was an American video game developer and publisher. It developed, published, marketed and distributed interactive entertainment software for a variety of hardware platforms, including Sega's Mega Drive/Genesis, Saturn,...
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| Coleco |
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Company | 1989 |
Coleco was a company founded in 1932 by Maurice Greenberg as "Connecticut Leather Company". It became a highly successful toy company in the 1980s, known for its mass-produced version of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls and its video game console, the...
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| Interceptor Group | Company |
Interceptor Micros also known as Interceptor Software (and later as Interceptor Group) was a developer/publisher (mainly of adventure game) for various 8bit and 16bit computer systems popular in Western Europe during the eighties and early nineties....
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| Jowett |
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Jowett was a car marque from Bradford, England from 1906 to 1954.
The company was founded by the brothers Benjamin and William Jowett who started in the cycle business and went on to make V-twin engines for driving machinery; some found their way...
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| Creative Sparks | Company |
Creative Sparks was a British video game software house in existence during the 1980s. The company started out as Thorn EMI Computer Software, a division of the now-defunct British conglomerate Thorn EMI, and later changed its name.
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| Penn Central Transportation |
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The Pennsylvania and New York Central Transportation Company, almost always called Penn Central, was an American railroad company that operated from 1968 until 1976. It was created by the merger on February 1, 1968 of the Pennsylvania Railroad and...
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| Magnetic Scrolls |
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Magnetic Scrolls was a British computer game developer during the mid 1980s and early 1990s. Their primary focus was the development of cutting edge text adventure games (also known as interactive fiction) on a variety of 8-bit and 16-bit home...
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