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Northwest Microcomputer Systems
Northwest Microcomputer Systems, Inc. (NMS), was a short-lived, privately owned American computer company active from 1977 to the early 1980s and based out of Oregon. The company was co-founded by several computer engineers and investors, including Randy Bush. History Northwest Microcomputer was incorporated in December 1977 in Coos Bay, Oregon, by Randy Bush, John Burles, Michael McKeown, Jim Long, and Jay Farr. The firm was headquartered at 219 Fitzpatrick Building, on the site of the shopping mall that existed in Coos Bay at the time. Bush was the company's principal founder; prior to founding Northwest, Bush had twelve years of experience in the computer industry as an engineer. He was joined by McKeown, a Doctor of Science; Long, a student of Marshfield High School who was hired as a programmer; John Burles, who was named accountant; and Jay Farr. Farr's other company, True Value Hardware, was Northwest's first client. Northwest's first product was unveiled at the seco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Randy Bush (scientist)
Randy Bush is a fellow at Arrcus and a research fellow at Internet Initiative Japan. He was among the inaugural inductees into the Internet Hall of Fame in 2012, given by the Internet Society. Career Bush has been working in the computer industry since 1966. He began with programming languages and specifically compilers. In 1977 he co-founded Northwest Microcomputer Systems with several other businessmen and computer engineers in Coos Bay, Oregon. The company released the 85/P, a Pascal (programming language), Pascal development microcomputer, in 1978. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Bush played a role in bringing the Internet in South Africa, Internet to South Africa. Bush was the senior engineer of the Verio founding team in the late 1990s, and worked there for five years as the Vice President of IP Networking. He was the Principal Engineer at RAINet in the early 90s, which was later acquired by Verio at which time he joined Verio. He was the founder of the Network Startup R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |