Manufacturer of Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s
This article is about the computer manufacturer. For the Apollo spacecraft computer, see Apollo Guidance Computer.
Apollo Computer Inc.
Industry
Apollo/Domain workstations
Founded
1980; 44 years ago (1980)
Founder
William Poduska
Fate
Acquired by Hewlett-Packard 1989
Headquarters
Chelmsford, Massachusetts
Apollo Computer Inc., founded in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, by William Poduska (a founder of Prime Computer) and others, developed and produced Apollo/Domain workstations in the 1980s. Along with Symbolics and Sun Microsystems, Apollo was one of the first vendors of graphical workstations in the 1980s. Like computer companies at the time and unlike manufacturers of IBM PC compatibles, Apollo produced much of its own hardware and software.
Apollo was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 1989 for US$476 million (equivalent to $1170 million in 2023), and gradually closed down over the period of 1990–1997. The brand (as "HP Apollo") was resurrected in 2014 as part of HP's high-performance computing portfolio.[1][2]
^"HP Redefines HPC and Supercomputing Market with New Portfolio" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Company. June 9, 2014.
^"Data sheet | HP Apollo 8000 System" (PDF). Hewlett-Packard Company. June 2014.
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