Applied Technology

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| name = Applied Technology

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| type = formerly: Public Company

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| foundation = 1975

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| industry = Computer hardware

| key_people = Owen Hill (Founder)

| products = MicroBee
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Applied Technology was founded by Owen Hill in 1975 in Australia. He was a pioneer producer of home computers that ran CP/M on Zilog Z80 microprocessors.[http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=287 "Applied Technologies / Microbee 32"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080101173918/http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=287 |date=2008-01-01 }}, at the old computers museum Their MicroBee computer (1982) was the first commercial personal computer manufactured in Australia.[http://web.aanet.com.au/image/oznaki/microbee.html "The MicroBee Story"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100416173304/http://web.aanet.com.au/image/oznaki/microbee.html |date=April 16, 2010 }}[http://www.theage.com.au/news/next/secret-of-project-granny-smith/2005/07/11/1120934156894.html Secret of project Granny Smith] By Gordon Laing, July 12, 2005 - theage.com.au[http://www.lcc.com.au/greg/faces/microbeegreg.htm Microbee Greg] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090914040232/http://www.lcc.com.au/greg/faces/microbeegreg.htm |date=2009-09-14 }} Microbee Dealer Conference, Sydney, 1984, Lincoln Computer Centre The computers were used by schools in Australia and Sweden and by BMW car dealers in Australia.{{cite journal|url=http://www.thepcmuseum.com/appliedtechnology/owenhill.zip|title=Microbee Systems: When Owen Hill Stood Still|journal=Your Computer|date=February 1986}}

It was later known as Microbee Systems, Microworld and Honeysoft.[http://www.search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bin/gns030c?acn=001054093&juris=9&hdtext=ACN&srchsrc=1 THOMPSON COUPLINGS LIMITED] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303201755/http://www.search.asic.gov.au/cgi-bin/gns030c?acn=001054093&juris=9&hdtext=ACN&srchsrc=1 |date=2016-03-03 }}, ASIC

Some models of mid-1980s are Applied Technology S100, Micro Bee 32IC, Micro Bee 128K, "Computer in a Book" and the 256TC.[http://www.thepcmuseum.com/appliedtechnology/ " Applied Technology aka Microbee Systems, Microworld and Honeysoft"]