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system and ''Data-Rite'', a data management system. They also offered specialist software, Tomcat to legal firms. The original J100 Videocomputer, a "shared logic" system was joined by the single user J500 Videocomputer. Jacquard was acquired by AM International, inventors of the addressograph, where it was seen to complement their range of

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s. Jacquard then also became the sales and marketing arm for the parent company's Amtext system. The corporate headquarters were at 3340 Ocean Park Boulevard,

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Subsidiaries

* Addressograph-Farrington, based in Randolph, Massachusetts

References

{{US-manufacturing-company-stub Defunct computer companies of the United States Defunct computer hardware companies Defunct computer systems companies 1970s establishments in California 1980s disestablishments in California