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| Industry | Computer hardware |
|---|---|
| Founded | 1982 |
| Founder | Andrew Najda and Stan Bialek |
| Products | Graphics cards |
| Website | www.nine.com (offline, in the Web archive) |
Number Nine Visual Technology Corporation was a manufacturer of video graphics chips and cards from 1982 to 1999. Number Nine developed the first 128-bit graphics processor (the Imagine 128), as well as the first 256-color (8-bit) and 16.8 million color (24-bit) cards.[1]
The name of the company, as well as many of its products (e.g., Revolution, Imagine, Pepper, Ticket to Ride) refer to Beatles songs. At system boot up, Number Nine cards' video BIOS splash screens display short phrases from Beatles songs related to the cards' model names. Card model names were usually preceded by a "#9" moniker.
- ^ "Number Nine Visual Technology and S3 Inc. -- Business to Continue as Usual". PR Newswire. 23 June 1999. Retrieved Jan 8, 2011.