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Parasitic Engineering
Parasitic Engineering, Inc., was an American computer company founded by Howard Fullmer in 1976. Named as a tongue-in-cheek reference to a comment by Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, MITS co-founder Ed Roberts (computer engineer), Ed Roberts, Parasitic's first products were hardware upgrade kits to MITS' Altair 8800 microcomputer kit, improving the latter's power supply Power rating, rating and susceptibility to Noise (electronics), noise. The company later released their own microcomputer based on the same bus as the Altair, the S-100 bus, S-100, but it was less popular than the company's hardware-improvement kits. By 1979, the company had pivoted to providing upgrades to Tandy Corporation, Tandy's TRS-80. Parasitic went defunct in 1983. Foundation (1976–1977) Howard Fullmer founded Parasitic Engineering from the basement of his Oakland, California, house in early 1976. The name was a swipe at Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems, MITS co-founder Ed Roberts (co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oakland, California
Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States. A major West Coast of the United States, West Coast port, Oakland is the largest city in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area, the third largest city overall in the Bay Area and the List of largest California cities by population, eighth most populated city in California. With a population of 440,646 in 2020, it serves as the Bay Area's trade center and economic engine: the Port of Oakland is the busiest port in Northern California, and the fifth busiest in the United States of America. An act to municipal corporation, incorporate the city was passed on May 4, 1852, and incorporation was later approved on March 25, 1854. Oakland is a charter city. Oakland's territory covers what was once a mosaic of California coastal prairie, California coastal terrace prairie, oak woodland, and north coastal scrub. In the late 18th century, it became part of a large ''rancho'' grant in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
