Applied Digital Data Systems (ADDS) was a supplier of video display

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s, founded in 1969 by Leeam Lowin and William J. Catacosinos. Lowin simultaneously founded

Solid State Data Sciences Solid is one of the four fundamental states of matter (the others being liquid, gas, and plasma). The molecules in a solid are closely packed together and contain the least amount of kinetic energy. A solid is characterized by structural ...

(SSDS). SSDS was one of the first developers of the MOS/LSI integrated circuits that were key to ADDS's product line. It became a subsidiary of

NCR Corporation NCR Corporation, previously known as National Cash Register, is an American software, consulting and technology company providing several professional services and electronic products. It manufactures self-service kiosks, point-of-sale termin ...

in 1980, which sold the ''Mentor 2000'' professional

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in the

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in 1986. The ''Mentor 2000'' ran at 5 MHz using a

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processor, 640 KB RAM, and included one 60MB

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. It used the

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and

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. It was able to manage 16 or 32 video terminals at once. ADDS (along with NCR) was later part of

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, then independent briefly before being acquired by

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. However, their version of the Pick operating system was acquired by Pick Systems Inc, now called

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. That version is now called mvBase.mvBase
MvBase was sold to

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in 2013.

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Old-computers.com — ADDS Mentor 2000
* tp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/adds_viewpoint_news.txt ADDS Viewpoint News Computer hardware companies Computer terminals Early microcomputers {{compu-hardware-stub

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