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Walnut Creek CDROM Inc.
IndustrySoftware publishing
FoundedAugust 1991; 32 years ago (1991-08) in Walnut Creek, California
FounderBob Bruce
Defunct2001; 23 years ago (2001)
FateRestructured and renamed iXsystems

Walnut Creek CDROM Inc. was an early provider of freeware, shareware, and free software on CD-ROMs. The company was founded by Bob Bruce in Walnut Creek, California, in August 1991. It was one of the first commercial distributors of free software on CD-ROMs. The company produced hundreds of titles on CD-ROMs, and ran the busiest FTP site on the Internet, ftp.cdrom.com, for many years.

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