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History of Viatron Computer Systems Corp

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I am looking for anyone who has information about Viatron formed in 1968 and bankrupt in 1971. Names of former employees would be helpful, particularly any of the senior designers who were responsible for the storage units, displays, and the computer itself.
 
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joeconline said:
I am looking for anyone who has information about Viatron formed in 1968 and bankrupt in 1971. Names of former employees would be helpful, particularly any of the senior designers who were responsible for the storage units, displays, and the computer itself.
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What would you like to know? I was there for about 2 years and designed the tape system servo electronics and read-write amplifiers.
 
Terry Yager said:
Damn! Is the world really that small? Don'cha love this board?

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I wouldn't say the world is small, more like this forum tends to attract like-minded people, which is why we keep stumbling across folks that actually designed some of these wonderful (and some that were not so wonderful) vintage computers! :-D
 
joeconline said:
I am looking for anyone who has information about Viatron formed in 1968 and bankrupt in 1971. Names of former employees would be helpful, particularly any of the senior designers who were responsible for the storage units, displays, and the computer itself.
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I worked at Viatron in 1968. While I was there Viatron displayed its portable data collection machine at the spring joint computer conference in Boston although I did not work on the project itself. It was a total misrepresentation of its capabilities and I was not surprised when the company failed. I was doing program design and implementation on an IBM 1130 for commercial clients in a separate division. Judy Andelman
 
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