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CompuSource Compatible Systems Inc. was a short-lived privately held American computer company active in the 1980s and based in Minneapolis.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 28 relations: Apple 80-Column Text Card, Apple DOS, Apple II, Apple Inc., Cathode-ray tube, Clean room design, Composite artifact colors, CP/M, Digital Research, Disk II, DOS, Forest Lake, Minnesota, IBM PC–compatible, IBM Personal Computer, Intel 8088, List of Apple II clones, Los Angeles, Microsoft, Minneapolis, Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, MS-DOS, Original equipment manufacturer, Read-only memory, Search and seizure, Softape, Toronto, Trade dress, United States Customs Service.

  2. Computer companies established in 1982
  3. Defunct companies based in Minneapolis

Apple 80-Column Text Card

The Apple 80-Column Text Card is an expansion card for the Apple IIe computer to give it the option of displaying 80 columns of text instead of 40 columns.

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Apple DOS

Apple DOS is the disk operating system for the Apple II computers from late 1978 through early 1983.

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Apple II

The Apple II series of microcomputers was initially designed by Steve Wozniak, manufactured by Apple Computer (now Apple Inc.), and launched in 1977 with the Apple II model that gave the series its name.

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Apple Inc.

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Cupertino, California, in Silicon Valley.

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Cathode-ray tube

A cathode-ray tube (CRT) is a vacuum tube containing one or more electron guns, which emit electron beams that are manipulated to display images on a phosphorescent screen.

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Clean room design

Clean-room design (also known as the Chinese wall technique) is the method of copying a design by reverse engineering and then recreating it without infringing any of the copyrights associated with the original design.

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Composite artifact colors

Composite artifact colors is a designation commonly used to address several graphic modes of some 1970s and 1980s home computers.

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CP/M

CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Inc. CP/M is a disk operating system and its purpose is to organize files on a magnetic storage medium, and to load and run programs stored on a disk.

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Digital Research

Digital Research, Inc. (DR or DRI) was a privately held American software company created by Gary Kildall to market and develop his CP/M operating system and related 8-bit, 16-bit and 32-bit systems like MP/M, Concurrent DOS, FlexOS, Multiuser DOS, DOS Plus, DR DOS and GEM.

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Disk II

The Disk II Floppy Disk Subsystem, often rendered as Disk.

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DOS

DOS is a family of disk-based operating systems for IBM PC compatible computers.

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Forest Lake, Minnesota

Forest Lake is a city in Washington County, Minnesota, United States, located 27 miles northeast of Saint Paul.

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IBM PC–compatible

IBM PC–compatible computers are technically similar to the original IBM PC, XT, and AT, all from computer giant IBM, that are able to use the same software and expansion cards.

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IBM Personal Computer

The IBM Personal Computer (model 5150, commonly known as the IBM PC) is the first microcomputer released in the IBM PC model line and the basis for the IBM PC compatible ''de facto'' standard.

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Intel 8088

The Intel 8088 ("eighty-eighty-eight", also called iAPX 88) microprocessor is a variant of the Intel 8086.

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List of Apple II clones

Apple II clones are computers that share functionality with the Apple II line but were not created by Apple.

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Los Angeles

Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the most populous city in the U.S. state of California.

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Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company headquartered in Redmond, Washington.

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Minneapolis

Minneapolis, officially the City of Minneapolis, is a city in and the county seat of Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. With a population of 429,954, it is the state's most populous city as of the 2020 census. It occupies both banks of the Mississippi River and adjoins Saint Paul, the state capital of Minnesota.

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Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport

Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, also less commonly known as Wold–Chamberlain Field, is a joint civil-military public international airport serving the Twin Cities in the U.S. state of Minnesota.

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MS-DOS

MS-DOS (acronym for Microsoft Disk Operating System, also known as Microsoft DOS) is an operating system for x86-based personal computers mostly developed by Microsoft.

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Original equipment manufacturer

An original equipment manufacturer (OEM) is generally perceived as a company that produces parts and equipment that may be marketed by another manufacturer.

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Read-only memory

Read-only memory (ROM) is a type of non-volatile memory used in computers and other electronic devices.

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Search and seizure

Search and seizure is a procedure used in many civil law and common law legal systems by which police or other authorities and their agents, who, suspecting that a crime has been committed, commence a search of a person's property and confiscate any relevant evidence found in connection to the crime.

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Softape

Softape was an Apple II software company that published computer games, utilities and productivity programs for the Apple II series of personal computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

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Toronto

Toronto is the most populous city in Canada and the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario.

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Trade dress

Trade dress is the characteristics of the visual appearance of a product or its packaging (or even the design of a building) that signify the source of the product to consumers.

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United States Customs Service

The United States Customs Service was a federal law enforcement agency of the U.S. federal government.

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See also

Computer companies established in 1982

Defunct companies based in Minneapolis

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuSource

Also known as CompuSource Compatible Systems, CompuSource Compatible Systems Inc, CompuSource Compatible Systems Inc., CompuSource Inc, CompuSource Inc., CompuSource Incorporated.