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{{Short description|Video display terminal supplier}}
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'''Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc.''' ('''ADDS'''), was a supplier of video display [[computer terminal]]s, founded in 1969 by [[Leeam Lowin]] and [[William J. Catacosinos]].<ref name ="LIFE">{{cite news
|last=Mahoney
|first=Stephen
|title=New Kid on the Street
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bU8EAAAAMBAJ&q=%22applied%20digital%20data%20systems%22%20leeam&pg=PA60
|accessdate=June 5, 2011
|newspaper=LIFE|date=June 6, 1969}}</ref><ref>{{cite book
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|title=Encyclopedia of microcomputers
|author=Allen Kent
|author-link=Allen Kent
|author2=James G. Williams |author3=Rosalind Kent |author4=Carolyn M. Hall
|publisher=CRC Press
|date=October 1987
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|page=240
}}</ref> Lowin simultaneously founded [[Solid State Data Sciences]] (SSDS). SSDS was one of the first developers of the MOS/LSI integrated circuits that were key to ADDS's product line.<ref name="LIFE"/>
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then independent briefly before being acquired by [[SunRiver Data Systems]].
However, their version of the Pick operating system was acquired by Pick Systems Inc, now called [[TigerLogic]]. That version is now called mvBase.<ref>[http://tigerlogic.com/tigerlogic/pick/database/mvb.jsp mvBase] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131114065303/http://tigerlogic.com/tigerlogic/pick/database/mvb.jsp |date=November 14, 2013 }}</ref> MvBase was sold to [[Rocket Software]] in 2013.
==See also==
*[[Tandy 10 Business Computer System]]
==References==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061021225311/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=882 Old-computers.com — ADDS Mentor 2000]
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