Masscomp RTU
The Massachusetts Computer Corporation (MASSCOMP) was a computer manufacturer based in Westford, Massachusetts. Originally conceived by C. Forbes Dewey of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT and inventor Chester Schuler, it was founded formally in 1981. Its target market was real-time computing, with a focus on high-speed data acquisition. Its major innovation was that it created the first widely available computer product which was able to Sampling (signal processing), sample analog signals at one million samples per second and store the resulting data to disk continuously. Given the technology available at the time—Motorola 68000 series Central processing unit, CPUs of only a few megahertz in speed and slow disk drives—this product represented quite a technological achievement. The MASSCOMP MC-500 is a 68000-based microcomputer running a real-time operating system, real-time variant of the Unix operating system. For a small company, MASSCOMP incorporated a numb ...
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