The General Computer Corporation was an early video game company. The company started out with the design of Mrs Pacman. They made other arcade games and Atari 2600 and Atari 5200 cartridges. They did the chip design for the Atari 7800, and the first round of cartridges for that base unit.
Presently the company makes Mac oriented print servers.
General Dynamics (NYSE: GD) is a defense conglomerate formed by mergers and divestitures, and as of 2005 it is the sixth largest defense contractor in the world
Current members of the board of directors of General Dynamics are: Nicholas Chabraja, James Crown, Lester Crown, William Fricks, Charles Goodman, Jay Johnson, George Joulwan, Paul Kaminski, John Keane, Lester Lyles, Carl Mundy, and Robert Walmsley.
General Dynamics has tried to acquire Newport News Shipbuilding but been blocked by regulators and competitors, as this would make General Dynamics the sole manufacturer of nuclear-powered ships in the United States.
Data General (DG) formed when several engineers from Digital Equipment Corporation were frustrated with management and left to form their own company.
Data General's introduction of the Data General-One in 1984 is an interesting side-note, one of the few cases of a minicomputer company introducing a truly breakthrough PC product.
Formerly almost all computer companies attempted to make their machines different enough that when their customers sought a more powerful machine, it was often cheaper to buy another from the same company.
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