THE ANSWERS:
  1. In October, 1969, Golden United Life Insurance Company began running its internal computer center, which went along for 10 years. In 1979 it began offering bulletin boards, databases, and games called MicroNet. The following year it reverted back to the name Golden Life Insurance gave it: CompuServe.
  2. The "Naked Mini" was a product of Computer Automation. It got it's name because it was sold stripped down: no frills. Computer Automation sold about 6,000 of them.
  3. In 1951 it changed its name to Texas Instruments. Actually, the company's first name was "Geophysical Service". It specialized in reflection seismograph exploration. It changed its name to Coronado Corporation in 1939.
  4. The founder of Scientific Data Systems, which he sold to Xerox in 1969. It became Xerox Data Systems. The sale was one of the earliest big acquisitions in the computer industry. Palevsky parlayed his $100,000 investment into an estimated $100 million at the time of the sale.
  5. Evelyn Berezen founded Redactron. Its Data Secretary system used cassette tape drives to store and edit documents. Redactron was acquired by Burroughs Corporation in 1976.
  6. She taught at Vassar and Barnard. She also worked on the Univac I at the Eckard-Mauchly Computer Corporation, and stayed after the company was acquired by Remington Rand and later by Sperry Corporation. She retired from Sperry in 1971 at the age of 65.
  7. The company was Viatron, and the "Everything" was an intelligent terminal. The company was founded in March of 1968, lost its first $1 million by January 1, 1969, and more than $9 million by that September. By the time it went int receivership in March, 1971, it had gone from 1,000 employees to 17.
  8. Digital Equipment Corporation donated space in its MR02 building in Marlborough, Mass to The Computer Museum. But the copper-colored glass building off Route 495 was built by RCA Corporation in 1970 as the headquarters for its computer division.
  9. The Josephson Junction, which IBM introduced in the early 1980s. SQUIDS stands for superconducting quantum interference devices. IBM claimed that one baseball-sized computer using Josephson Junction technology could equal the computing power of all the computers shipped in 1983.
  10. Satellite Software International was being founded and named by Alan Ashton and Bruce Basiain in 1980. In 1986 it took the name of its enormously popular product, WordPerfect The company became outrageously successful, was acquired by Novell, and subsequently was sold to Corel.


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