Formerly | Boca Research, Inc. (1985–2001) |
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Company type | Public |
Industry | Computer |
Founded | January 1985Boca Raton, Florida | in
Founder | Tim Farris |
Defunct | January 2002 |
Fate | Acquired by Ener1 |
Products | Peripherals |
Number of employees | 330 (1996, peak) |
Boca Research, Inc., later Inprimis, Inc., was an American computer company based in Boca Raton, Florida, and active between 1985 and 2002. The company manufactured a variety of expansion cards for the IBM PC and compatible systems, including memory cards, networking cards, sound cards, and graphics cards. Once a major player in the computer networking market, being the fourth-largest manufacturer of modems in 1996, Boca Research abandoned the PC hardware market entirely amid falling market share and manufactured set-top boxes in the last years of its existence.