Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) was a

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. Headquartered first in

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(it was started by Don Kinzer and Dave Shirk, EE graduate students at

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) and later (1980) moved to

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, it was the foremost supplier of software for

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compatible hardware, as well as many other early makes of personal computers. Their software included operating systems (

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, mini-FLEX,

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, and UniFlex) and various languages (several

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variants, FORTRAN,

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, C and assemblers).

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