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Ramtek was an American manufacturer of computers, computer graphics displays, and coin-operated video games founded in 1971. It became a publicly held corporation in 1978.Now Eyeing Graphics, Ramtek Searches for Cash As Loral Deal Collapses
Robert Batt, CW West Coast Bureau, June 8, 1981, ''Computer World'' In 1981 it was generally regarded as the No. 1 company in the area of raster-scan color graphics display, printer/plotter or large screen projector. Its business was split among general-purpose graphics, applications in government, applications in the medical field and process control.
* ''Clean Sweep'' (June 1974) Genre: Ball and Paddle It is considered to be a primitive predecessor to Atari's '' Breakout'' (1976). The player uses a paddle to hit a ball up towards a playfield of dots, which disappear as the ball moves through the dots; the goal is to is to achieve a clean sweep by erasing all the dots. ''Clean Sweep'' was one of the top ten best-selling arcade video games of 1974, and sold a total of 3,500 arcade cabinets.
* ''Baseball'' (October 1974) Genre:
''The International Arcade Museum'' * Wipe Out (1974) Genre: Ball and Paddle
February 12, 1979, ''Computer World'' * Ramtek 9000 Series Display Controller * Ramtek 9050 Series Display Controller
May 19, 2013, ''allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com''
Manufacturer: Ramtek
''The International Arcade Museum'' {{Authority control Video game companies of the United States
Robert Batt, CW West Coast Bureau, June 8, 1981, ''Computer World'' In 1981 it was generally regarded as the No. 1 company in the area of raster-scan color graphics display, printer/plotter or large screen projector. Its business was split among general-purpose graphics, applications in government, applications in the medical field and process control.
History
* 1979 Ramtek boughtOmron
, styled as OMRON, is a Japanese electronics company based in Kyoto, Japan. Omron was established by in 1933 (as the ''Tateishi Electric Manufacturing Company'') and incorporated in 1948.
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's CRT manufacturing division for $1.6 million.
Products
6000 series graphics computer family
* 6114 Color-graphic Computer (1979) * 6214 Color-graphic Computer (1980) with 16 displayable colors from a palette of 64 and usingUCSD Pascal
UCSD Pascal is a Pascal programming language system that runs on the UCSD p-System, a portable, highly machine-independent operating system. UCSD Pascal was first released in 1977. It was developed at the University of California, San Diego (U ...
. It uses 4 MHz Zilog Z80
The Z80 is an 8-bit microprocessor introduced by Zilog as the startup company's first product. The Z80 was conceived by Federico Faggin in late 1974 and developed by him and his 11 employees starting in early 1975. The first working samples were ...
CPU, 64 kB RAM
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and a floppy disk drive, with a base price of $19,250
* 2020-4228 CAD
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve co ...
workstation (1985) with 750 kB RAM (expandable to 5 MB) and a base price of $10,995
Terminals
* Ramtek 8210/UET interactive data entry terminal compatible withUNIVAC
UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer) was a line of electronic digital stored-program computers starting with the products of the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation. Later the name was applied to a division of the Remington Rand company an ...
computers
Arcade video games
* ''Clean Sweep'' (June 1974) Genre: Ball and Paddle It is considered to be a primitive predecessor to Atari's '' Breakout'' (1976). The player uses a paddle to hit a ball up towards a playfield of dots, which disappear as the ball moves through the dots; the goal is to is to achieve a clean sweep by erasing all the dots. ''Clean Sweep'' was one of the top ten best-selling arcade video games of 1974, and sold a total of 3,500 arcade cabinets.
* ''Baseball'' (October 1974) Genre: Sports
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...
* Barricade (1976) Genre: Skill
* Dark Invader (1978) Genre: Space
* Deluxe Baseball (1976) Genre: Baseball
* GT Roadster (1979) Genre: Racing
* Hit Me (1976) Genre: Card
* Hockey (1973) Genre: Ball and Paddle
* Horoscope (1976)
* M-79 Ambush (1977) Genre: Shooter
* Sea Battle (1976) Genre: Shooter
* Soccer (1973) Genre: Ball and Paddle
* Star Cruiser (1977) Genre: Shooter
* Trivia (1976)
* Volly (1973) Genre: Ball and Paddle a Pong
''Pong'' is a table tennis–themed twitch arcade sports video game, featuring simple two-dimensional graphics, manufactured by Atari and originally released in 1972. It was one of the earliest arcade video games; it was created by Allan Al ...
cloneVolly''The International Arcade Museum'' * Wipe Out (1974) Genre: Ball and Paddle
Other products
* Ramtek 3000When you need color graphics, Ramtek has it allFebruary 12, 1979, ''Computer World'' * Ramtek 9000 Series Display Controller * Ramtek 9050 Series Display Controller
Notes
External links
May 19, 2013, ''allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com''
Manufacturer: Ramtek
''The International Arcade Museum'' {{Authority control Video game companies of the United States