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*Parallel Computers – fault-tolerant supermicro/minicomputer based on Unix, acquired 1987, sold 1988<ref name="lat-1988">{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-08-03-fi-6568-story.html | title=Parallel Computer Acquired 16 Months Ago: General Automation to Sell Money-Losing Subsidiary | author-first=David | author-last=Olmos | newspaper=Los Angeles Times | date=August 3, 1988}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 22:26, 7 May 2020
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| Company type | Public |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1968 |
| Headquarters | Anaheim, California |
Key people | Larry Goshorn, co-founder |
| Products | Minicomputers |
GA General Automation was an American company, founded in 1968 by Larry Goshorn (a former marketing executive and a salesman from Honeywell), which manufactured minicomputers and industrial controllers.
Products
- GA SPC-12[1] (Jan 1968)
- Priced at $6400 and claiming $4,000 worth of free options
- Totally integrated, binary, parallel, single address processor
- 4,096 words (8 bit bytes) of memory with a 2.2 microsecond cycle time
- Shared command concept that permits the SPC-12s 8-bit memory to handle 12-bit instructions.
- Features included a real-time clock, expandable memory to 16K, a teletype interface, a control panel and a priority interrupt
- GA SPC-8 (Nov 1968)[2][3][4]
- GA 18/30 (June 1968, IBM 1800 compatible)[5]
- GA SPC-16/30, /50 & /70 (November 1971)[6]
- GA SPC-16/40, /45, /65 & /85 (January 1972)[7]
- LSI-12/16 (January 1974)[8]
- GA 16/110 & /120 (December 1976)[11]
- GA 16/220
- GA 16/330
- GA 16/440
- GA 16/460
- Parallel Computers – fault-tolerant supermicro/minicomputer based on Unix, acquired 1987, sold 1988[12]
References
- ^ Datamation, September 1968, p. 137
- ^ "Low Cost Computer Has 4K Memory". Computerworld. 2 (39): 7. 25 Sep 1968.
- ^ "Across the Editor's Desk - Computing and Data Processing Newsletter: SPC-8, A NEW GENERAL PURPOSE COMPUTER FROM GENERAL AUTOMATION, INC". Computers and Automation: 60. Oct 1968.
- ^ SPC-8 general purpose computer. General Automation, Inc. 1968.
- ^ Datamation, May 1969, p. 136
- ^ Datamation, November 15, 1971, p. 112
- ^ Datamation, January 1972, p. 5
- ^ Datamation, January 1974, p. 105
- ^ Datamation, January 1974, p. 105
- ^ Datamation, January 1975, p. 18
- ^ *"Mini Maker Offering Micro". December 6, 1976. Retrieved March 7, 2019.
- ^ Olmos, David (August 3, 1988). "Parallel Computer Acquired 16 Months Ago: General Automation to Sell Money-Losing Subsidiary". Los Angeles Times.