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Columbia Data Products
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<p>Columbia Data Products, Inc. (CDP) is a company which produced the first legally reverse-engineered <a href="/facts/IBM_PC_compatible/zGUpl7Sh">IBM PC clones</a>, starting with the <a href="/facts/MPC_1600/PwkatccL">MPC 1600</a> series in 1982. It faltered in that market after only a few years, and later reinvented itself as a <a href="/facts/Software_development/UUfsAaYY">software development company</a>. </p>