Alloy Computer Products

Alloy Computer Products

Alloy Computer Products is an Australian manufacturer of information technology products based near Melbourne. As of 2007, the company currently markets networking and VoIP products. The company was originally based in Framingham, Massachusetts and by 1990 was part of the Fortune 500. At one point Alloy was a major producer of QIC format tape drives and other computer peripherals. In the mid 90's the company was no longer profitable and was bought out by management team from the Australian division. It no longer operates as a manufacturer or as an American corporation.

Alloy Computer Products, Inc., was founded in 1979. Alloy Computer Products developed and marketed multi user computer systems for the emerging microcomputer marketplace. Later Alloy became involved in backup systems, tape drives and printing accelerator hardware. Alloy grew to $50 million in annual sales by 1986 and executed a successful IPO in June of that year. Alloy had an installed based of 150,000 users by the early 1990s, largely small businesses, comprise a relatively significant portion of the multiuser DOS marketplace. One DOS based computer was equipped with a multi-user DOS call "Multiware" and hardware to provide serial connectivity to up to 16 dumb terminal clients. If a problem arose with a single terminal it could be rebooted without an effect on other terminals attached. Later "Multinode" was introduced to meet client needs operating under the Novell network operating system allowing both Client/Server network connectivity as well as serial terminal users.

External links

* [http://www.alloy.com.au/ Corporate website] .
* [http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/australian-alloy-forges-a-winning-technical-connection/2005/11/03/1130823342395.html Buyout info] .
* [http://www.textfiles.com/digitize/items/1983-alloy-computer-products/ Scans] of magazine advertisements from 1983 illustrating their then-current product line.

* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1992_June_15/ai_12370599] Alloy files for bankruptcy.
* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NEW/is_1993_March_1/ai_13731142] Alloy Computer Products to market Micro Advice's JETstream! printer accelerator card


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