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'''ADDSApplied Digital Data Systems''', or '''Applied Digital Data SystemsADDS''', was a leading supplier of high-quality video display computer terminals, founded in 1969 by [[WilliamLeeam J. CatacosinosLowin]]<ref name = LIFE>{{cite booknews

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|title=New Kid on the Street

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|newspaper=LIFE|date=June 6, 1969}}</ref> and [[William J. Catacosinos]]<ref>{{cite book

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|title=Encyclopedia of microcomputers

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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/>

}}</ref> together with ''SSDS'' (''Solid State Data Sciences'') in 1970.

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