Mycron was a pioneer manufacturer of

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s, located in

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. Originally named Norsk Data Industri, the company was founded in 1975 by Lars Monrad Krohn, who was also one of the founding fathers of Norsk Data. Among the employees are Arne Maus (1986–89) and Gisle Hannemyr. The company was renamed MySoft in 1999.

Computers manufactured by Mycron

MYCRO-1 was an Intel 8080 machine, running the ''MYCROP''operating system. Afterwards the Mycron 3 was developed, running

CP/M CP/M, originally standing for Control Program/Monitor and later Control Program for Microcomputers, is a mass-market operating system created in 1974 for Intel 8080/Intel 8085, 85-based microcomputers by Gary Kildall of Digital Research, Dig ...

. The Mycron 1000 featured a

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processor and ran

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. In 1981, the Mycron 2000 was released, based on an

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CPU, running CP/M-86 and MP/M-86

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References

External links

Computer-Archiv – Mycron
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