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{{Short description|Video display terminal supplier}}

'''Applied Digital Data Systems''', or '''ADDS''', was a leading supplier of high-quality video display computer terminals, founded in 1969 by [[Leeam Lowin]] and [[William J. Catacosinos]]. <ref name = LIFE>{{cite news

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'''Applied Digital Data Systems, Inc.''', or ('''ADDS'''), was a leading supplier of high-quality video display [[computer terminalsterminal]]s, founded in 1969 by [[Leeam Lowin]] and [[William J. Catacosinos]]. <ref name = "LIFE">{{cite news

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}}</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"/>

It became a subsidiary of [[NCR Corporation|NCR]] in 1980, which sold the ''Mentor 2000'' professional [[computer]] in the [[United States]] in 1986.

The ''Mentor 2000'' ran at 5&nbsp;MHz using a [[Zilog]] processor, 640KB640&nbsp;KB RAM, and included one 60MB [[hard disk]]. It used the [[Pick operating system]] and [[database management system]]. It was able to manage 16 or 32 [[video terminal]]sterminals at once.

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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==

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==References==

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==External links==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061021225311/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=882 Old-computers.com — ADDS Mentor 2000]

* [ftphttps://csinvisible-island.utk.edunet/pubarchives/shuford/terminal/adds_viewpoint_news.txt ADDS Viewpoint News]

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