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{{Short description|American computer company}}

{{Infobox company

| name = American Computer &and Peripheral, Inc.

| image = American Computer and Peripheral Former Headquarters Santa Ana 2022 crop.JPG

| image_caption = Former headquarters in [[Santa Ana, California]]

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| products = {{Unbulleted list|American XTSR|American 286|386 Translator|386 Turbo}}

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'''American Computer &and Peripheral, Inc.''' ('''AC&P'''), also written as '''American Computer and& Peripheral''', was an American computer company based in [[Santa Ana, California|Santa Ana]], California. The company was founded in 1985 by Alan Lau and released several expansion boards for the [[IBM Personal Computer|IBM PC]] as well as a few [[IBM PC compatible|PC clones]] before going bankrupt in December 1989. Obscure in its own time,{{sfnm|1a1=Amirrezvani|1a2=Rosenbaum|1a3=Trivette|1y=1986|1p=92|2a1=Shackelford|2y=1986|p=12C}} the company's 386 Translator was the first plug-in board for [[Intel]]'s newly released [[i386|80386]] processor and the first mass-market computing device to offer consumers a means of using the 386 in July 1986.{{sfnm|1a1=Amirrezvani|1a2=Rosenbaum|1a3=Trivette|1y=1986|1p=92|2a1=Chabal|2a2=Ranney|2y=1986|2p=8}}

==History==

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| via=Google Books

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* {{cite journal | last=Pugila | first=Vincent | date=May 12, 1987 | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_eweek_1987-05-12_4_19/page/63/ | title=80386-Based Accelerator Card Boosts AT's Speed to 16MHz | journal=PC Week | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=4 | issue=19 | pagepages=63, 71–72 | via=the Internet Archive | ref={{sfnRef|Pugila|1987a}} }}

* {{cite journal | last=Pugila | first=Vincent | date=June 23, 1987 | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_eweek_1987-06-23_4_25/page/n11/ | title='386 PCs Broaden Users' Choice of Systems | journal=PC Week | publisher=Ziff-Davis | volume=4 | issue=25 | page=20 | via=the Internet Archive | ref={{sfnRef|Pugila|1987b}} }}

* {{cite journal | last=Rhein | first=Bob | date=August 11, 1986 | url=https://archive.org/details/sim_mis-week_1986-08-11_7_32/page/38/ | title=ACP Is Readying 2 Boards | journal=MIS Week | volume=7 | issue=32 | page=38 | publisher=Fairchild Publications | via=the Internet Archive}}

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* {{cite news

| author=Staff writer

| url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/272332713/

| title=Bankruptcies

| date=December 23, 1989

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| page=C2

| accessdate=October 14, 2021

| viaid={{ProQuest|272332713}}

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* {{cite journal