Seattle Computer Products

Seattle Computer Products
IndustryMicrocomputer hardware and software
HeadquartersTukwila, Washington
Key people
Rodney Maurice Brock,
Tim Paterson
ProductsS-100 8086 boards, 86-DOS
Rod M. Brock's business card

Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was a Tukwila, Washington, microcomputer hardware company which was one of the first manufacturers of computer systems based on the 16-bit Intel 8086 processor.[1] Founded in 1978,[2] SCP began shipping its first S-100 bus 8086 CPU boards to customers in November 1979,[3] about 21 months before IBM introduced its Personal Computer which was based on the slower 8088 and introduced the 8-bit ISA bus. SCP shipped an operating system for that hardware about a year before the release of the PC, which was modified by Microsoft for the PC and renamed IBM PC DOS. SCP was staffed partly by high-school students from nearby communities who soldered and assembled the computers. Some of them would later work for Microsoft.

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