13 Facts About CPT Corporation

1.

CPT Corporation was founded in 1971 by Dean Scheff in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with co-founders James Wienhold and Richard Eichhorn.

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2.

CPT Corporation first designed, manufactured, and marketed the CPT Corporation 4200, a dual-cassette-tape machine that controlled a modified IBM Selectric typewriter to support text editing and word processing.

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3.

CPT Corporation was fifth in size among Minnesota-based top high-tech companies, after 3M, Honeywell, Control Data, and Medtronic.

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4.

CPT Corporation ultimately ceased major manufacturing late in the 20th century.

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5.

CPT Corporation 4200 was a dual-cassette-tape unit with a small built-in keyboard that controlled a modified IBM Selectric typewriter.

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6.

CPT Corporation Communicator was an add-on to the CPT Corporation 4200 that allowed data to be transferred from one text-editing machine to another, or between a text-editing machine and a remote computer, via phone lines.

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7.

CPT Corporation 8000 was the company's first microcomputer product, exhibited in spring of 1976.

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8.

CPT Corporation 8000 was designed to show a full page of text with a static line showing the margin and tab stops.

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9.

CPT Corporation Phoenix was a highly advanced computer system that had a true multiprocessor .

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10.

CPT Corporation developed its own PAL Compiler with a much cleaner syntax and a Hardware Design Language which allowed a complex board such as the graphics controller to be designed without requiring a schematic.

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11.

CPT Corporation's autorouter was a Fortran Program that was run on a time shared mainframe that he leased time on.

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12.

The MSDOS version of Stage 2 was less than 10K bytes so all of the tools CPT Corporation used were fast and totally portable to any machine with a running Stage 2.

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13.

CPT Corporation PT was a reduced a version of the software that ran under MS-DOS as an application on IBM PC compatible computers.

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