Seattle Computer Products

<p>Seattle Computer Products (SCP) was a <a href="/facts/Tukwila%2c_Washington/QXeJnWsM">Tukwila</a>, <a href="/facts/Washington_(state)/7tCrTFnN">Washington</a>, <a href="/facts/Microcomputer/ETW22UTv">microcomputer</a> hardware company which was one of the first manufacturers of <a href="/facts/Computer_system/SQe1aK05">computer systems</a> based on the <a href="/facts/16-bit/bTGS44Ne">16-bit</a> <a href="/facts/Intel_8086/sS9dlSdK">Intel 8086</a> <a href="/facts/Central_processing_unit/Jxp1bqMV">processor</a>. Founded in 1978, SCP began shipping its first <a href="/facts/S-100_bus/3C5L4KSt">S-100 bus</a> 8086 CPU boards to customers in November 1979, about 21 months before <a href="/facts/IBM/QszA7nwd">IBM</a> introduced its <a href="/facts/IBM_Personal_Computer/yhcJGMPL">Personal Computer</a> which was based on the slower <a href="/facts/Intel_8088/DdWKfyBp">8088</a> and introduced the 8-bit <a href="/facts/ISA_bus/5Rk4bjqB">ISA bus</a>. SCP shipped an <a href="/facts/Operating_system/8XTuvMh2">operating system</a> for that hardware about a year before the release of the PC, which was modified by <a href="/facts/Microsoft/nGIDDXdx">Microsoft</a> for the PC and renamed <a href="/facts/IBM_PC_DOS/ScsfqAwQ">IBM PC DOS</a>. SCP was staffed partly by high-school students from nearby communities who soldered and assembled the computers. Some of them would later work for Microsoft.
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Seattle Computer Products