Parasitic Engineering
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Parasitic Engineering, Inc., was an American computer company founded by Howard Fullmer and Gene Nardi in 1974. Named as a tongue-in-cheek reference to a comment by MITS co-founder Ed Roberts, Parasitic's first products were hardware upgrade kits to MITS' Altair 8800 microcomputer kit, improving the latter's power supply rating and susceptibility to noise. The company later released their own microcomputer based on the same bus as the Altair, the S-100, but it was less popular than the company's hardware-improvement kits. By 1979, the company had pivoted to providing upgrades to Tandy's TRS-80. Parasitic went defunct in 1983.
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Computer |
Founded | 1974; 50 years ago (1974) in Oakland, California, United States |
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Defunct | 1983; 41 years ago (1983) |
Fate | Dissolution |
Headquarters | Albany, California |
Products | Equinox 100 |
Number of employees | 9 (1977) |
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