Applied Digital Data Systems (ADDS) was a supplier of video display

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s, founded in 1969 by Leeam Lowin and William J. Catacosinos. 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. It became a subsidiary of

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in 1980, which sold the ''Mentor 2000'' professional computer in the

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in 1986. The ''Mentor 2000'' ran at 5 MHz using a

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processor, 640 KB RAM, and included one 60MB

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. It used the Pick operating system and

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. It was able to manage 16 or 32 video terminals at once. ADDS (along with NCR) was later part of

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, then independent briefly before being acquired by SunRiver Data Systems. However, their version of the Pick operating system was acquired by Pick Systems Inc, now called TigerLogic. That version is now called mvBase.mvBase
MvBase was sold to Rocket Software in 2013.

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Old-computers.com — ADDS Mentor 2000
* tp://ftp.cs.utk.edu/pub/shuford/terminal/adds_viewpoint_news.txt ADDS Viewpoint News Computer hardware companies Computer terminals Early microcomputers {{compu-hardware-stub

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