Applied Technology
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| Industry | Computer hardware |
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| Founded | 1975 |
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Key people
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Owen Hill (Founder) |
| Products | MicroBee Others.. |
Applied Technology, was founded by Owen Hill in 1975 in Australia. He was a pioneer producer of home computers that ran CP/M on Zilog Z80 microprocessors.[1] Their MicroBee computer (1982) was the first commercial personal computer manufactured in Australia.[2][3][4] The computers were used by schools in Australia and Sweden and by BMW car dealers in Australia.[5]
It was later known as Microbee Systems, Microworld and Honeysoft.[1][6][7]
Some models of mid-1980s are Applied Technology S100, Micro Bee 32IC, Micro Bee 128K, "Computer in a Book" and the 256TC.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Applied Technologies / Microbee 32", at the old computers museum
- ↑ "The MicroBee Story"
- ↑ Secret of project Granny Smith By Gordon Laing, July 12, 2005 - theage.com.au
- ↑ Microbee Greg Microbee Dealer Conference, Sydney, 1984, Lincoln Computer Centre
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 " Applied Technology aka Microbee Systems, Microworld and Honeysoft"
- ↑ THOMPSON COUPLINGS LIMITED, ASIC
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