Digital Systems

{{anchor|Seattle|DSI|DMS||DML|Torode}}Digital Systems Inc., was an American accounting service and technology development company active between 1966 and 1979. It was founded by John Q. Torode in Seattle, Washington. The company was reorganized into the microcomputer design and development company Digital Microsystems, Inc. (DMS), Oakland, USA, founded in 1979. In 1984, it was sold to the new UK operation Digital Microsystems Ltd. (DML) (owned by Extel Group Plc) and finally ended its US operations in 1986. Without Torode, Digital Microsystems Ltd.'s product HiNet (Hierarchical Integration Network) was sold to Apricot Computers Plc in 1987. In 1986, Torode founded a new company, IC Designs, Inc., based partly on Theodore "Ted" H. Kehl's VLSI technology at the University of Washington (UW), which was bought by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in 1993.

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{{cite web |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/in-his-own-words-gary-kildall/ |title=In His Own Words: Gary Kildall |author-first=Len |author-last=Shustek |date=2016-08-02 |work=Remarkable People |publisher=Computer History Museum}}

{{cite book |orig-year=1993 |date=2016-08-02 |title=Computer Connections: People, Places, and Events in the Evolution of the Personal Computer Industry |author-first=Gary Arlen |author-last=Kildall |author-link=Gary Kildall |editor-first1=Scott |editor-last1=Kildall |editor-link=Scott Kildall |editor-first2=Kristin |editor-last2=Kildall |publisher=Kildall Family |type=Manuscript, part 1 |url=http://www.computerhistory.org/atchm/computer-history-museum-license-agreement-for-the-kildall-manuscript/ |access-date=2016-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117232745/http://s3data.computerhistory.org/kildall-p.1-78-publishable-lowres.pdf |url-status=live |archive-date=2016-11-17 }}

{{cite web |title=The History of CP/M, The Evolution of an Industry: One Person's Viewpoint |author-first=Gary Arlen |author-last=Kildall |author-link=Gary Kildall |date=January 1980 |publisher=Dr. Dobb's Journal of Computer Calisthenics & Orthodontia |pages=6–7 |edition=Vol. 5, No. 1, Number 41 |url=http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/CPM_history_kildall.txt |access-date=2013-06-03 |quote=[…] The first commercial licensing of CP/M took place in 1975 with contracts between Digital Systems and Omron of America for use in their intelligent terminal, and with Lawrence Livermore Laboratories where CP/M was used to monitor programs in the Octopus network. Little attention was paid to CP/M for about a year. In my spare time, I worked to improve overall facilities […] By this time, CP/M had been adapted for four different controllers. […]}}

{{cite web |title=CP/M and Digital Research Inc. (DRI) History - References |date=2018-06-07 |editor-first=Herbert "Herb" R. |editor-last=Johnson |location=New Jersey, USA |url=http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/d_dri_refs.html |access-date=2020-02-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223212031/http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/d_dri_refs.html |archive-date=2020-02-23}}

{{cite news |title=The Executive Microcomputer Conference & Exposition (EMCE) |date=1983-06-20 |newspaper=InfoWorld - The Newsweekly for Microcomputer Users |volume=5 |number=25 |issn=0199-6649 |publisher=Popular Computing, Inc. |pages=22–23 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zC8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22 |access-date=2020-02-23 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223224230/https://books.google.de/books?id=zC8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=Digital+Systems,+Inc.+Torode&source=bl&ots=GwtNH8kHIR&sig=ACfU3U3MdC_jEQbLqda6Ceg1wLvI9IrlmA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwinqbu93ejnAhWF2qQKHYmyBpUQ6AEwDnoECAsQAQ |archive-date=2020-02-23 |quote=[…] Digital Microsystems, Inc. […] Embarcadero, Oakland, CA […] Digital Microsystems (DMS), originally Digital Systems, was founded in 1975 by Dr. John Torode who designed the first floppy disk subsystem for use on a micro. In 1974, DMS collaborated with Gary Kildall (Digital Research's founder) to design and implement the first microcomputer disk operating system, CP/M. […]}}

{{cite web |title=Steve Kline of Digital Micro Systems |date=2011-06-20 |author-first=Steve |author-last=Kline |editor-first=Herbert "Herb" R. |editor-last=Johnson |location=New Jersey, USA |url=http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/digital_systems_kline.html |access-date=2020-02-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225145306/http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/digital_systems_kline.html |archive-date=2020-02-25}}

{{cite web |title=Digital Systems, Digital Microsystems |date=2011-06-13 |orig-year=November 2010 |author-first=Herbert "Herb" R. |author-last=Johnson |location=New Jersey, USA |url=http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/digital_systems_products.html |access-date=2020-02-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207034925/http://www.retrotechnology.com/dri/digital_systems_products.html |archive-date=2020-02-07}}

{{cite web |title=UW CSE Alumnus John Torode founds IC Designs |date=1996 |publisher=University of Washington |url=https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lazowska/impact/torode.html |access-date=2020-02-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200207035812/https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~lazowska/impact/torode.html |archive-date=2020-02-07}}

{{cite web |title=Remembering Ted Kehl |publisher=University of Washington |series=Allen School News |work=Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering |date=2019-02-27 |url=https://news.cs.washington.edu/2019/02/27/remembering-ted-kehl/ |access-date=2020-02-24 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200225152841/https://news.cs.washington.edu/2019/02/27/remembering-ted-kehl/ |archive-date=2020-02-25}}

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