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Diablo Data Systems

Diablo Data Systems
Company typeDivision
IndustryComputer
PredecessorDiablo Systems Inc.
Founded1969 (1969) in Cupertino, California
Defunct1972 (1972)
FateAcquired by Xerox
ParentXerox

Diablo Data Systems was a division of Xerox created by the acquisition of Diablo Systems Inc. for US$29 million in 1972,[1][2] a company that had been founded in 1969 by George E. Comstock, Charles L. Waggoner and others.[3][4] The company was the first to release a daisy wheel printer, in 1970.

Metal Daisy Wheel for Xerox & Diablo printers

The company was best known for the HyType I and HyType II typewriter-based computer terminals, the Diablo 630 daisy wheel printers,[5] as well as removable hard disk drives that were used in the Xerox Alto computer and resold by DEC as the RK02 and RK03.[6]

  1. ^ Alexander R. Hammer (March 14, 1972). "Xerox to Acquire Disk-Drive Maker For $28-Million". The New York Times.
  2. ^ Xerox Factbook 2003-2004 Archived 2006-11-16 at the Wayback Machine, p.43
  3. ^ "CI News: Play it again, George?". Computerworld. XI (47). Computerworld, Inc.: 64. November 21, 1977. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  4. ^ Schultz, Brad (October 2, 1978). "Business Mini Weighs 65 Pound - What is Durango?". Computerworld. Vol. XII, no. 40. CW Communications, Inc. pp. 1, 4. Retrieved June 13, 2017.
  5. ^ Thom Hogan (March 1984). "Creating a letterhead with your daisywheel printer". Atari Magazine (Creative Computing). Vol. 10, no. 3. p. 202.
  6. ^ "Ken&Den picture". Nokia Bell Labs.

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