Ramtek (company)
Ramtek was an American manufacturer of computers, computer graphics displays, and coin-operated video games founded in 1971. It became a publicly held corporation in 1978.[1] In 1981 it was generally regarded as the No. 1 company in the area of raster-scan color graphics display, printer/plotter or large screen projector.[1] Its business was split among general-purpose graphics, applications in government, applications in the medical field and process control.[1]
Products
6000 series graphics computer family
- 6114 Color-graphic Computer (1979)[3]
- 6214 Color-graphic Computer (1980) featuring 16 displayable colors from a palette of 64 and using UCSD Pascal. It featured a 4 MHz Zilog Z80 CPU, 64 kB RAM and a floppy disk drive, with a base price of $19,250[4]
- 2020-4228 CAD workstation (1985) featuring 750 kB RAM (expandable to 5 MB)[5] and a base price of $10,995[6]
Arcade video games
- Barricade (1976) – Genre: Skill
- Clean Sweep (1974) – Genre: Ball and Paddle – Some see the game as a kind of primitive predecessor to Atari's Breakout.[8]
- Dark Invader (1978) – Genre: Space
- Deluxe Baseball (1976) – Genre: Baseball
- GT Roadster (1979) – Genre: Racing
- Hit Me (1976) – Genre: Card
- Hockey (1973) – Genre: Ball and Paddle
- Horoscope (1976)
- M-79 Ambush (1977) – Genre: Shooter
- Sea Battle (1976) – Genre: Shooter
- Soccer (1973) – Genre: Ball and Paddle
- Star Cruiser (1977) – Genre: Shooter
- Trivia (1976)
- Volly (1973) – Genre: Ball and Paddle – a Pong clone[9]
- Wipe Out (1974) – Genre: Ball and Paddle
Notes
- Now Eyeing Graphics, Ramtek Searches for Cash As Loral Deal Collapses, Robert Batt, CW West Coast Bureau, June 8, 1981, Computer World
- Ramtek buys Omrom Arm – Division Makes CRTs, 26 March 1979, Computer World
- Ask Ramtek. (Nobody knows more about Colorgraphics). Isn't one clear, colorful picture worth a thousand lines of print-out?, March 17, 1980, Computer World
- Ramtek Expands 6000 Series Of Color Graphics CPUs, June 16, 1980, Computer World
- Ramtek unwraps CAD workstations, Maura McEaney, CW Staff, August 12, 1985, Computer World
- Ramtek unwraps CAD workstations – page 2, Maura McEaney, CW Staff, August 12, 1985, Computer World
- Four reasons why UNIVAC users are switching to the Ramtek 8210/Uniscope Emulation Terminal, November 12, 1979, Computer World
- The Ultimate (So Far) History of Exidy – Part 1, May 19, 2013, allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com
- Volly, The International Arcade Museum
- When you need color graphics, Ramtek has it all, February 12, 1979, Computer World
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External links
- The Ultimate (So Far) History of Exidy – Part 1, May 19, 2013, allincolorforaquarter.blogspot.com
- Manufacturer: Ramtek, The International Arcade Museum
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