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'''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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|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/>

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