Technical Systems Consultants (TSC) was a

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software company. Headquartered first in

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(it was started by Don Kinzer and Dave Shirk, EE graduate students at

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) and later (1980) moved to

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, it was the foremost supplier of software for SWTPC compatible hardware, as well as many other early makes of personal computers. Their software included operating systems ( Flex, mini-FLEX, FLEX09, and UniFlex) and various languages (several

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variants, FORTRAN, Pascal, C and assemblers).

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