Foonly

Foonly, Inc.
Company typePrivate
FoundedJune 7, 1976; 48 years ago (1976-06-07)[1]
FounderDave W Poole[2]
DefunctApril 19, 1989 (1989-04-19)[1]
FateDissolved
Headquarters
Mountain View, California[3]
,
United States
ProductsMainframes
Computer hardware
Computer software

Foonly Inc. was an American computer company formed by Dave Poole[2] in 1976,[4] that produced a series of DEC PDP-10 compatible mainframe computers.[5]

The first and most famous Foonly machine, the F1, was the computer used by Triple-I to create some of the computer-generated imagery in the 1982 film Tron.[2]

  1. ^ a b "Corporates Wiki, Foonly entry". Archived from the original on 2018-07-15. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
  2. ^ a b c Raymond, Eric. S; Steele, Guy L. "'Foonly n.': in The New Hacker's Dictionary". hackersdictionary.com.
  3. ^ "Computing facilities for AI, 1981" (PDF). S2CID 17838082. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 July 2018.
  4. ^ "Foonly F2 Brochure, 1981" (PDF). bitsavers.trailing-edge.com.
  5. ^ Mountain View. "Foonly Model Fx Computer Family Product Review" (PDF). bitsavers.trailing-edge.com. Retrieved 25 January 2024.