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Labtec Inc. was a manufacturer of 
computer
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accessories, founded in Vancouver, Washington, United States in 1982. They were best known for their budget range of peripheral
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s such as keyboards
Keyboard may refer to:
Text input
* Keyboard, part of a typewriter
* Computer keyboard
** Keyboard layout, the software control of computer keyboards and their mapping
** Keyboard technology, computer keyboard hardware and firmware
Music
* Musi ...
, mice
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, microphones, speakers and webcams.
Originally known as Spacetec IMC Corp, the company changed its name to LabTec Inc. in February 1999. As Spacetec IMC Corp, the company manufactured 6DOF controllers for use with CAD software. A ''Spaceball Spaceball(s) or ''variation'', may refer to:
TV and film
* "Spaceball" (''Battlestar Galactica''), an episode of the short lived science fiction series ''Galactica 1980
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2003'' controller was used to control the Mars Pathfinder spacecraft.
In late 2001 Logitech bought Labtec for approximately 125 million USD in cash, stock and debt in order to expand its line of audio products for personal computers and other devices.
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Telecommunications companies of the United States Telecommunications equipment vendors Videotelephony Companies based in Vancouver, Washington Telecommunications companies established in 1981 Technology companies disestablished in 2001 Logitech {{Compu-hardware-stub