PC-GR TECH HISTORY TeleVideo 925
TeleVideo 925 | TechMuseum
Year of manufacture: 1981
Technical Specifications:
- Processor: Mostek 6502
- RAM: 16 KB
- Connectors/Ports: Serial
- Monitor: Monochrome
- Keyboard: 84 keys
The TeleVideo 925 features a Mostek 6502 processor and memory of 16kB.
Televideo Corporation was an American electronics company, founded in 1979. The founder, South Korean Philip Hwang, ran a business producing CRT monitors for arcade games before the founding of the company.
During the 1980s met grand success producing microcomputers supported by terminal emulators (TeleVideo 925 emulation). Computers of the product line based on Z80 processor and late on the Intel 8088 and was CP/M compatible. The corporation later produced Microsoft compatible thin computers
In 2005, the manufacturer dropped the computer division and sold the business line to Neoware, later taken over by HP. One year later, filed for bankruptcy. In 2011, Televideo discontinued the designing, manufacturing and marketing of all terminal products.
To conclude, one very notable fact is that TeleVideo completed 35 concurrent years with millions of units sold successfully.
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