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AST Computers, LLC was a private company founded in 1999 when Beny Alagem, founder of Packard Bell Electronics, bought the name and intellectual property of AST Research, Inc. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... AST Research, Inc. ... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Beny Alagem (born 1953) was a former Israeli tank driver and the founder of Packard Bell Electronics, a leading American computer manufacturer during the late 1980s and early 1990s. ... Current corporate logo Packard Bell (PB) was an American radio manufacturer, founded in 1933, in Los Angeles, that later became a defense contractor and manufacturer of other consumer electronics, such as television sets. ... Intellectual property, or IP, refers to a legal entitlement which sometimes attaches to the expressed form of an idea, or to some other intangible subject matter. ... AST Research, Inc. ...
AST Computers disappeared from the market in 2001. 2001: A Space Odyssey. ...
Every teacher was also provided a computer and at least one printer.
Breadbox Computer Company, LLC, owners and licensors of the patented GEOS Operating System and associated desktop and other device software, announced the company has relocated its offices to Brooksville, Florida.
Each school received 8 to 12 computers depending on the number of students and teachers were trained in how to use the new equipment.
AST's original business was the manufacture and marketing of a broad range of microcomputer expansion cards, later focusing on higher-density replacements for IBM's standard I/O cards in the IBM PC.
A typical AST card of the mid-1980s would have two RS-232 serial ports, a parallel printer port, a battery-backed clock/calendar (the original IBM PC did not have one), perhaps a bus mouse port, and 384 KB of DRAM (added to the 256 KB on the motherboard to reach the full complement of 640 KB).
AST Research was acquired by Samsung on August 11, 1997.
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