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| Industry | Computer Peripherals |
|---|---|
| Predecessor | Peripheral Equipment Corporation |
| Founded | 1967[1] |
| Defunct | 1987 |
| Fate | Acquired by Triumph-Adler |
| Headquarters | , |
Pertec Computer Corporation (PCC), formerly Peripheral Equipment Corporation (PEC), was a computer company based in Chatsworth, California which originally designed and manufactured peripherals such as floppy drives, tape drives, instrumentation control and other hardware for computers.[2]
Pertec's most successful products were hard disk drives and tape drives, which were sold as OEM to the top computer manufacturers, including IBM, Siemens and DEC. Pertec manufactured multiple models of seven and nine-track half-inch tape drives with densities 800CPI (NRZI) and 1600CPI (PE) and phase-encoding formatters, which were used by myriad original equipment manufacturers as I/O devices for their product lines.
In the 1970s, Pertec entered the computer industry through several acquisitions of computer producers and started manufacturing and marketing mostly minicomputers for data processing and pre-processing. This split up Pertec into two companies. Pertec Peripherals Corporation (PPC), which remained based in Chatsworth, California, and Pertec Computer Corporation (PCC), which was located at 17112 Armstrong Avenue, in Irvine, California.
- ^ Pertec's New Owner Hopes to Revitalize High-Tech Pioneer, Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1986
- ^ Wiseman, Toni (Dec 6, 1976). "Pertec Targets Both End of Peripheral Spectrum". Computerworld. 10 (49). Newton, MA: Computerworld Inc.: 54. ISSN 0010-4841.