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Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG was a German manufacturer of mass market audio equipment.
In 1984 computers from the
History
The origins of the company trace to 1889 inTürkheim
Türkheim is a municipality in the district of Unterallgäu in Bavaria, Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Al ...
, Bavaria, Germany, when Felix Schneider founded a company manufacturing industrial woodworking tools. In 1965 the business entered the audio electronics market through the manufacture of radio cabinets
During the 1970s and 1980s the Schneider name became associated with audio systems; the company was unusual for a German audio systems manufacturer in that it focused on low cost products rather than the luxury sector.
In 1984 computers from the Amstrad
Amstrad plc was a British consumer electronics company, founded in 1968 by Alan Sugar. During the 1980s, the company was known for its Home computer, home computers beginning with the Amstrad CPC and later also the ZX Spectrum range after the ...
company were marketed under the Schneider brand in Germany and central Europe. Schneider sold the Amstrad CPC 464
The CPC 464 is the first personal home computer built by Amstrad. Released in 1984, it was the first entry in the Amstrad CPC family of home computers. The CPC 464 was one of the bestselling and best produced microcomputers, with more than 2 mil ...
, Amstrad PCW
The Amstrad PCW series is a range of personal computers produced by United Kingdom, British company Amstrad from 1985 to 1998, and also sold under licence in Europe as the "Joyce" by the German electronics company Schneider Computer Division, Schn ...
and Schneider Joyce, followed by the Amstrad PC1512 and PC1640.
In 1987 the association with Amstrad ended, and the company produced PC compatible machines from 1988, like the Schneider Euro PC.
The '' Gebrüder Steidinger'' company (maker of the Dual
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Paired/two things
* Dual (mathematics), a notion of paired concepts that mirror one another
** Dual (category theory), a formalization of mathematical duality
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* Dual number, a nu ...
turntable line) and brand were acquired from Thomson Thomson may refer to:
Names
* Thomson (surname), a list of people with this name and a description of its origin
* Thomson baronets, four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Thomson
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in 1988, in part to obtain a saleable brand name in France where the large and long established company Schneider SA was already present. In the 1990s the company's name was changed to Schneider Electronics
In 2002 the company was bankrupt. It was acquired by the TCL Corporation
TCL Technology Group Corp. (originally an abbreviation for Telecom Corporation Limited) is a Chinese partially state-owned electronics company headquartered in Huizhou, Guangdong province. TCL develops, manufactures, and sells consumer elect ...
for €8.2 million in 2002.
See also
*Schneider Computer Division Schneider may refer to:
Companies and organizations
* G. Schneider & Sohn, a Bavarian brewery company
* Schneider Rundfunkwerke AG, the former owner of the Dual brand of record players
** Schneider Computer Division, a brand of Amstrad CPC in ...
* Schneider Euro PC
References
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