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Vadem
Vadem Inc., later Vadem Limited, was an original design manufacturer, chipset designer, and computer design firm active from 1983 to 2013. The company chiefly focused on the design of mobile computers such as laptops, rendering their services to companies such as Zenith Data Systems, Osborne Computer Corporation, and Sharp Corporation, among others. In the late 1990s, the company released their own branded product, the Vadem Clio, a PDA. History Vadem Inc. was founded by Henry Fung and Chikok Shing in San Jose, California, in 1983. Fung had previously worked for Intel as an engineer, while Shing had worked for the Osborne Computer Corporation, which had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy around the time of Vadem's incorporation. In its founding year, Vadem delivered the design for what would become the Morrow Pivot, one of the first battery-powered MS-DOS compatible portable computers, manufactured and sold by Morrow Designs. Morrow provided Vadem with under $3 million in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vadem Clio
{{Advert, date=March 2010 The Vadem Clio is a handheld PC that ran Windows CE H/PC Pro 3.0 (WinCE Core OS 2.11). It was released in 1999. Data Evolution Corporation currently owns the rights to the Clio. Overview The Clio is a convertible tablet computer, designed by Vadem Corporation, which runs Microsoft’s Windows CE operating system and has a "SwingTop" pivoting arm. The 180 degree screen rotation allowed the unit to be used as a touch screen tablet or as a more traditional notebook with keyboard. Clio could run more than 12 hours on a single charge and together with the Sony VAIO, was one of the first full-sized portable computers that measured only an inch (2.2cm) thick. The platform was conceived and created within Vadem by a skunkworks team that was led by Edmond Ku. Clio was first developed without the knowledge of Microsoft and after it was presented to Bill Gates and the CE team, led to the definition of the Jupiter class CE platform. Handwriting software was from Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharp PC-4500
The Sharp PC-4500 is a line of laptop computers released by Sharp Corporation in 1987. The line comprises the PC-4501, the PC-4502, and the PC-4521. The PC-4501 is a bare-bones unit with only 256 KB of Random-access memory, RAM stock, only one floppy drive, no backlighting, and no built-in numeric keypad; the PC-4502 and PC-4521 bumps the stock RAM to 640 KB and includes the latter two features while providing either two floppy drive (PC-4502) or one floppy drive and a 20 MB hard drive (PC-4521). Prices on the line initially ranged from $1,295 to just under $3,000; the PC-4501 was later sold for $995, becoming one of the first sub-$1,000 laptops available on the market. The PC-4500 line received mixed, mostly positive, reviews on its release in September 1987. Development and specifications The PC-4500 series was developed by Sharp Electronics of Japan and co-developed by Vadem, Vadem Inc., an original design manufacturer and computer design consultant of San Jose, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
