Company type | Sociedade Anônima |
---|---|
Prológica | |
Industry |
Computer System Software |
Founded | 1976 |
Founder | Leonardo Bellonzi Joseph Blumenfeld |
Defunct | 1995 |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Geraldo Coen Carlos Gauch |
Products |
Computer Monitors Personal Computer Laptops |
Number of employees | 1,500 (1984) |
Subsidiaries | Microperiférico Promel Editele Nova Eletrônica |
Prológica Indústria e Comércio de Microcomputadores, [1] [2] commonly shortened to Prológica, [3] was an influential Brazilian microcomputer company that reached its peak in the mid-1980s, when it ranked third among national companies in the sector. [4]
Founded in 1976, the company initially commercialized machines for accounting use, namely the MCA-100 and Alpha Disk. The first models had an Intel 8080 processor, and in the early months the company even managed to get a partnership with Olivetti. [5]
The company later specialized in producing products similar to the American TRS-80 series of microcomputers, under the general name of "CP" (for "Computador Pessoal" in Portuguese, "Personal Computer" in English). [6] [7]
One of its biggest successes in the professional field was the CP 500, compatible with the TRS-80 Model III. [4] [5]
In 1990, the company was sued by Microsoft for creating SO16 ("Sistema Operativo 16"), an operating system based on MS-DOS. [8] [9]
A not extensive list of Prológica's products: [4] [10] [1] [11]