TeleVideo Corporation was a

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company that achieved its peak of success in the early 1980s producing

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s. TeleVideo was founded in 1975 by K. Philip Hwang, a

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graduate born in

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who had run a business producing CRT monitors for arcade games since 1975. The company was headquartered in

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. TeleVideo's terminal protocol was popular in the early days of microcomputers and was widely supported by applications as well as

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s (often referred to as "TeleVideo 925 emulation"). TeleVideo also built CP/M-compatible 8-bit desktop and portable

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s based on the

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processor. Up to sixteen of these machines could be connected to proprietary multi-user systems through serial interfaces. In April 1983, TeleVideo introduced an

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-compatible personal computer based on the

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. This was introduced as the Model TS-1603 and included 128 KB RAM (expandable up to 256 KB), integrated monitor, modem and keyboard. The Model TS-1603 ran both TeleVideo PC DOS 2.0 and CP/M-86 1.1. The company later turned to manufacturing

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-compatible

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computers, but eventually sold this business line to

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in October 2005. The latter was subsequently taken over by Hewlett-Packard in 2007. On March 14, 2006, TeleVideo, Inc. filed a voluntary petition for reorganization under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code. After more than 35 years in business and with millions of terminals sold worldwide, TeleVideo discontinued the manufacturing and sales of all terminal products as of September 30, 2011.

Products

* Terminals: TeleVideo 905, 910, 912, 914, 920, 921, 922, 924, 925, 9320, 935, 950, 955, 965, 970, 990, 995-65, Personal Terminal * Graphic boards for Terminals: 914GR, 924GR, 970GR * CP/M systems: TeleVideo TS-800, TS-802, TS-803 *

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and MP/M II: TeleVideo TS-804 (4 users for MP/M II) * CP/M-86/

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systems: TeleVideo TS-1603 * TeleVideo TPC-1, a portable CP/M system similar to the

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* Early multi-user systems: TeleVideo TS-806 (6 users), TS-816 (16 users) *

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a small green desktop IBM AT clone with a 6 or 8 MHz 80286 CPU Trademark filing for TELECAT-286 1986

References

External links

Official website (mostly defunct)TS-802 CP/M personal computer History of Televideo founders Background on TS-1603 All In One ComputerTerminals Wiki
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