'''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 Lue and released several expansion boards for the [[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}}
