TeleVideo

The Televideo Corporation was an American computer manufacturer, headquartered in San Jose, California. The highlight of his success had Televideo in the early 1980s. It was founded in 1979 by Philip K. Hwang, one originating from Korea graduates of Utah State University. Hwang had 1975 first established a company that screens for arcade games produced.

The terminal protocol of Televideo Corporation was very popular in the early days of the microcomputer and was supported by many applications and terminal emulators (as Televideo 925 emulation).

Televideo built, inter alia, the CP / M -compatible 8-bit personal computers and portable computers based on the Z80 processor. Up to sixteen of these machines could be connected together to form a proprietary multi-user system via a serial interface.

1983 introduced a MS- DOS - compatible personal computer based on an Intel 8088 processor.

The company presented in the following also Windows-compatible thin client computer. This business was sold in October 2005 at the Neoware Inc., which was acquired by Hewlett -Packard in 2007.

On March 14, 2006, the Televideo Inc., a bankruptcy application in accordance with Chapter 11 ( Chapter 11, Title 11, United States Code ) on restructuring in order to keep the company afloat.

On 30 September 2011, the company introduced after 35 years in which the company had sold millions of terminals worldwide, its production and distribution a.

Products

• Terminals: Televideo 910, 912, 920, 920B, 920C, 925, 950, 955, 965, 970, 975, terminal staff
• CP / M systems: Televideo TS -800, TS -802, TS -803
• Televideo TPC -1, a portable CP / M system, similar to the Osborne -1
• Early multi-user systems: Televideo TS -806 (6 users ), TS -816 (16 User)