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| x Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory |
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Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory, the primary lab of the Shockley Transistor Company, was the first company to work on silicon semiconductor devices in what came to be known as Silicon Valley. It was purchased by Clevite in 1960, and officially...
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| x Tobin Arms |
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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| x Sunbeam |
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Sunbeam was a British manufacturing marque that produced bicycles and motorcycles from 1912 to 1956. Originally independent, it was ultimately owned by BSA. Sunbeam is perhaps most famous for its S7 model, a balloon-tyred shaft-drive motorcycle with...
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| x CRL Group PLC |
CRL Group plc is a defunct British video game development and publishing company. Originally CRL stood for "Computer Rentals Ltd.". It was based in King's Yard, London and run by Clem Chambers.
They released a number of notable adventure games based...
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| x Armstrong Whitworth |
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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 armaments, ships, locomotives,...
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| x Acornsoft |
Acornsoft was the software arm of Acorn Computers Ltd, and 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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| x MicroProse |
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MicroProse was a video game publisher and developer, founded by Wild Bill Stealey and Sid Meier in 1982 as Microprose Software. In 1993, the company became a subsidiary of Spectrum HoloByte and has remained a subsidiary or brand name under several...
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| x Armstrong |
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 (6.0 kW) International engine.
After 1904, vehicle production came under Armstrong-Whitworth.
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| x Palace Software |
Palace Software was a British video game publisher and developer 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...
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| x Ocean Software |
The British company Ocean Software (or Ocean Software Ltd. and sometimes known in North America as Ocean of America, Inc. but generally only referred to as Ocean) was one of the biggest European video game developers/publishers of the 1980s and 90s....
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| x Mirrorsoft |
Mirrorsoft was a computer game software publisher in the United Kingdom, owned by Mirror Group Newspapers. It was founded as a publisher of educational software before moving into games. One offshoot of its printing roots was Fleet Street Publisher...
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| x RCA | 1986 |
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...
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| x Origin Systems | 2004 |
Origin Systems, Inc. (sometimes abbreviated as OSI) was a video game developer based in Austin, Texas that was active from 1983 to 2004. It is most famous for the Ultima and Wing Commander series.
The company was founded in 1983 by brothers Richard...
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| x Telecomsoft |
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 video games at a variety of price-points.
Telecomsoft...
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| x Austin-Healey |
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Austin-Healey was a British sports car maker. 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 the Donald Healey Motor Company, a...
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| x Nuffield Organisation | 1952 |
Nuffield Organisation was the unincorporated umbrella-name or promotional name used for the charitable and commercial interests of owner and donor, Lord Nuffield. The name was assumed following Nuffield's gift made to form his Nuffield Foundation...
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| x MicroIllusions |
MicroIllusions, based in Granada Hills, California was a 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...
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| x Domark |
Domark Software was a video games software house based in the United Kingdom. The name was derived from the given names of its founders, Dominic Wheatley and Mark Strachan. Domark developed and published many games for home computers during the...
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| x Nutting Associates |
Nutting Associates was an early arcade game manufacturer from Mountain View, California, formed in 1965 when Bill Nutting spun off "The Knowledge Computer" prototype from Edex Corp.. Nutting, Richard Ball, and an electronic technician redesigned it...
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| x Tradewest | 1994 |
Tradewest is a now-defunct American 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...
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| x Sirius Software |
Sirius Software was a video game 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 Nasir Gebelli. It gained attention for its dramatically quick rise to...
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| x British Motor Corporation | 1966 |
The British Motor Corporation Limited, BMC was a Longbridge, Birmingham, United Kingdom based vehicle manufacturer, a new holding company formed in early 1952 to give effect to an agreed merger of the Morris and Austin businesses.
BMC acquired the...
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| x Acclaim Entertainment | 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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| x Coleco |
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Bankruptcy | 1989 |
Coleco is an American 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 consoles,...
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| x Interceptor Group |
Interceptor Micros also known as Interceptor Software (and later as Interceptor Group) was a developer/publisher of video games for various 8bit and 16bit computer systems popular in Western Europe during the eighties and early nineties.
In addition...
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| x Jowett |
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Jowett was a manufacturer of light cars and light commercial vehicles in Bradford, West Yorkshire, England from 1906 to 1954.
Jowett was founded in 1901 by brothers Benjamin (1877—1963) and William (1880—1965) Jowett with Arthur V Lamb. They started...
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| x Creative Sparks |
Creative Sparks was a British video games 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.
Creative Sparks...
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| x Penn Central Transportation |
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The Penn Central Transportation Company, commonly abbreviated to 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 (PRR) and the New York...
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| x Magnetic Scrolls |
Magnetic Scrolls was a British video game developer during the mid 1980s and early 1990s. It was one of two largest interactive fiction game makers of the 1980s. Their primary focus was the development of text adventure games (also known as...
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| x Grandslam Entertainment |
Grandslam Entertainment (later Grandslam Video) was a computer and video games software house based in Britain. It was formed in late 1987 from the ashes of Argus Press Software by former Argus Managing Director, Stephen Hall. Grandslam developed...
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| x FTL Games |
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FTL Games (Faster Than Light) was the video game development division of Software Heaven Inc. FTL created several popular video games in the 1980s and early 1990s. Despite the company's small size, FTL products were consistently number-one sellers...
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| x J.K. Greye Software |
J.K. Greye Software was a British software company set up by J.K.Greye in early 1981 and 6 months later joined by Malcolm Evans after they met at a Bath Classical Guitar & Lute Society meeting in Bath in 1981. They produced computer games for the...
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| x Working Designs |
Working Designs was an American video game publisher that specialized in the localization of Japanese role-playing video games, strategy video games and top-down shooters for various platforms. Though the company had published many 'cult hits', it...
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| x Argonaut Games |
Argonaut Games plc was a British video game developer. Founded as Argonaut Software by teenager Jez San in 1982, the company name is a play on his name (J. San) and the movie title Jason and the Argonauts. It had its head offices in Edgware, London....
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| x Strategic Simulations, Inc. |
Strategic Simulations, Inc. (SSI) was a video game developer and publisher with over 100 titles to its credit since its founding in 1979. It was especially noted for its numerous wargames, its official computer game adaptations of Dungeons & Dragons...
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| x Financial Collection Agencies Ltd. |
Financial Collection Agencies Ltd (FCA) was an accounts receivable/collections company that operated in Canada, the United States and Europe from 1979 to 1998 when it was acquired by the NCO Group for $68 Million USD.
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| x Lanchester Motor Company |
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1955 |
The Lanchester Motor Company Limited was a car manufacturer based until 1930 at Armourer Mills, Montgomery Street, Sparkbrook, Birmingham, England. It operated from 1895 to 1955.
The company was purchased by the BSA Group at the end of 1930 and its...
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| x Triumph Motor Company | 1984 |
The Triumph Motor Company was a British car and motor manufacturing company. The marque had its origins in 1885 when Siegfried Bettmann (1863–1951) of Nuremberg initiated S. Bettmann & Co and started importing bicycles from Europe and selling under...
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| x Standard Motor Company |
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The Standard Motor Company was founded in Coventry, England in 1903 by Reginald Walter Maudslay (1871–1934). The Standard name was last used in Britain in 1963, and in India in 1987.
The company was first registered on 2 March 1903 by R. W. Maudslay...
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| x Vortex Software |
Vortex Software was a video game developer founded by Costa Panayi and Paul Canter in the early 1980s to sell the game Cosmos which Panayi had developed for the Sinclair ZX81. They converted the game to the ZX Spectrum, but due to the low sales of...
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| x Distinctive Software |
Distinctive Software, Inc. (DSI) was a Canadian software house established in Burnaby, British Columbia, by Don Mattrick and Jeff Sember. It is the predecessor to EA Canada.
Distinctive Software was best known in the late 1980s for their ports,...
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| x Level 9 Computing | 1991 |
Level 9 was a British computer text adventure game company which produced some of the most advanced games of the 1980s. Founded in 1981 by Mike Austin, Nicholas Austin and Pete Austin, the company produced about 20 games for BBC Micro, Nascom, ZX...
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| x Amsoft |
Amsoft was a wholly owned subsidiary of Amstrad, PLC, founded in 1984 and re-integrated with its parent company in 1989. Its purpose was to provide an initial infrastructure of software and services for users of Amstrad's range of home computers,...
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| x Newman Printing Company, Inc. |
The Newman Printing Company was founded in Bryan, Texas, in 1950 by Louis Newman, Jr.
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| x Gremlin Interactive Limited |
Gremlin Interactive (formerly Gremlin Graphics) was a British software house based in Sheffield and working mostly in the home computer market.
The company was established in 1984 as Gremlin Graphics Software Ltd by Ian Stewart. In 1994 it was...
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| x Marimba |
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Marimba, Inc. develops, markets and supports software change and
configuration management solutions. Its products automate the
distribution and management of software applications and content.
Specific software solutions it provides include data...
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| x Cray Computer Corporation | 1995 | |||
| x Friedrichshafen Flugzeugbau | 1923 |
Flugzeugbau Friedrichshafen GmbH was a German aircraft manufacturing company. It was founded in 1912 in Friedrichshafen, Germany by Theodor Kober who had previously worked for the Zeppelin company. The town, which was located by the Bodensee, was...
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| x Alsace |
The Alsace was a small car assembled by Piedmont Motor Company for Automotive Products Co of New York, made with right-hand drive for export purposes. Its only differences from the normal Piedmont were the right-hand drive and its Rolls-Royce type...
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| x Moffat Communications |
Moffat Communications was a Canadian cable and broadcasting company. Privately owned by the Moffat family, the company was based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The company owned the following media businesses in Canada and the U.S.A.:
In the 1990s Moffat...
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| x Rederi AB Slite |
Rederi AB Slite was a Swedish shipping company, founded in 1947. The company was one of the three founding companies of Viking Line. Rederi AB Slite went bankrupt in 1993.
Rederi AB Slite was founded by Carl-Bertil Myrsten together with his siblings...
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| x Act III Broadcasting |
Act III Broadcasting was a company that owned several television stations that started as independents, and later became Fox affiliates. The stations were located in medium-sized markets, and the company existed from the mid 1980s to the mid 1990s,...
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| x Georges Creek Railroad |
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The Georges Creek Railroad was a railroad operated by the Georges Creek Coal and Iron Company in Western Maryland. The railroad operated from 1853 to 1863, when it was acquired by the Cumberland and Pennsylvania Railroad (C&P;).
Georges Creek Coal...
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| x Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company |
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The Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, founded as Cowles Electric Smelting and Aluminum Company, and Cowles Syndicate Company, Limited formed in the United States and England during the mid-1880s to extract and supply valuable metals. Founded...
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| x WMC Resources |
WMC Resources Limited was an Australian diversified mining and fertilizer company formerly listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. WMC was an acronym for Western Mining Corporation. It was delisted on 29 June 2005 following a successful takeover by...
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| x BiiN |
BiiN was a company created out of a joint research project by Intel and Siemens to develop fault tolerant high-performance multi-processor computers build on custom microprocessor designs. BiiN was an outgrowth of the Intel iAPX 432 multiprocessor...
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