Xebec Corporation
American computer hardware company / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Xebec Corporation, formerly Microcomputer Systems Corporation, was an American computer hardware company active from 1969 to 1990. The company was primarily known for their data storage products, especially their hard disk controller ICs. A major customer of Xebec was IBM, who used their disk controllers extensively in the PC XT in 1983, their first PC with a hard drive preinstalled.
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Formerly | Microcomputer Systems Corporation (1974–1983) |
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Company type | Public |
Industry | Computer |
Founded | 1969; 55 years ago (1969) in Sunnyvale, California, U.S. |
Founder | Jim Toreson (co-founder) |
Defunct | 1990; 34 years ago (1990) |
Fate | Dissolution |
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