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Connectix Corporation

Fate	Sold Quickcam to Logitech, Sold Virtual Game Station to Sony, sold Virtual PC to Microsoft, discontinued other products
Successor	Dissolved
Founded	October 1988
Defunct	August 2003
Location
Industry	computer software and hardware
Products	Virtual MODE32 MAXIMA RAM Doubler Speed Doubler Quickcam Virtual Game Station Virtual PC Virtual Server
Key people	Jon Garber Bonnie Fought Roy McDonald Eric Traut

Connectix Corporation was a software and hardware company, noted for having released innovative products that were either made obsolete as Apple Computer incorporated the ideas into system software, or were sold to other companies once they become popular. It was formed in October 1988 by Jon Garber; dominant board members were Garber, Bonnie Fought (the two were later married), and close friend Roy McDonald. McDonald was still Chief Executive Officer and president when Connectix finally closed in August 2003. Image File history File links Question_book-3. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Connectix Quickcam This 1996 picture was taken with the original Connectix QuickCam for Macintosh. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... The Virtual Game Station (VGS) is an emulator by Connectix that allows Sony PlayStation games to be played on a computer. ... Sony Corporation ) is a Japanese multinational corporation and one of the worlds largest media conglomerates with revenue of $66. ... Virtual PC is a virtualization suite for Apple Mac OS X and Microsoft Windows operating systems, originally created by Connectix, subsequently acquired by Microsoft. ... Microsoft Corporation, (NASDAQ: MSFT, HKSE: 4338) is a multinational computer technology corporation with global annual revenue of US$44. ... MODE32 is a software product originally developed by Connectix for certain models of the Apple Macintosh. ... For other uses, see Maxima (disambiguation). ... Connectix Quickcam This 1996 picture was taken with the original Connectix QuickCam for Macintosh. ... A virtual private server (also referred to as virtual dedicated server or virtual server, and abbreviated VPS or VDS) is a method of partitioning one physical server computer into multiple servers that each has the appearance and capabilities of running on its own dedicated machine. ... Eric Traut is an American software engineer and software emulation pioneer. ... Apple Inc. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ... “Chief executive” redirects here. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Primary products included:

• Virtual, its original flagship product, which introduced virtual memory to the Macintosh OS years before Apple introduced System 7 (Virtual also ran on a motley assortment of accelerator cards for the original Mac / Mac Plus / Mac SE line, which were not supported under Apple's virtual memory implementation);
• MODE32 software, which allowed 32-bit addressing on "32-bit-dirty" Macintosh systems (later bought by Apple and distributed for free, at least in part to settle a class-action lawsuit brought by customers who demanded to know why their 32-bit 68020 microprocessors could not access more than 8 megabytes of RAM);
• MAXIMA, a RAM disk utility, better than the one that later came with the Mac OS as it saved its contents before and after reboots and also allowed booting from the RAM disk;
• RAM Doubler, the first product to combine compression with virtual memory, a top selling Mac utility for many years (eventually made obsolete as Apple improved their own virtual memory and RAM prices dropped); [There was also a RAM Doubler for Windows 3.1 which increased system resources - using a compression technique - therefore allowing more applications to run]
• Speed Doubler, which combined an enhanced disk cache, better Finder copy utility, and a dynamically recompiling 68K-to-PowerPC emulator, which was faster than both the interpretive emulator that shipped in the original PowerPCs and than the dynamically recompiling emulator that Apple shipped in later machines (made obsolete as 68K applications and OS code went away);
• Quickcam webcams (sold to Logitech) - originally the sole design of Jon Garber, he wanted to call it the 'Mac-camera', but was vetoed by Marketing who saw the possibility of it one day becoming a cross-platform product. Indeed, it was to become the first Connectix Windows product 14 months later, the first of many (RAM Doubler for Windows 3.1 being the next to take the leap; Kibitzer's note: the Mac QuickCam shipped in August 1994, RAM Doubler for Windows in April 1995, QuickCam for Windows in October 1995);
• Virtual Game Station, PlayStation emulation software (sold to Sony, who bought it only after their lawsuit to stop it failed, and then dropped the product immediately)
• Virtual PC and Virtual server emulation software of x86-based personal computers for the Macintosh and Windows (sold to Microsoft).

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