GammaLink
{{Infobox company
| name=GammaLink Inc.
| logo=
| founded={{circa}} {{start date and age|1984}}
| defunct={{end date and age|1994|06}}
| fate=Acquired by Dialogic Corporation
| products=GammaFax
| type=Private
| industry=Computer
| founders={{ubl|Hank Magnuski|Michael Lutz}}
}}
GammaLink Inc. was an American computer hardware and software company founded in the 1980s in Sunnyvale, California, by Hank Magnuski and Michael Lutz.{{cite book | last=Bhide | first=Amar V. | date=2003 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssP0yxSf0vUC | title=The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses | publisher=Oxford University Press | page=88 | isbn=9780199883578 | via=}} The company was the first to invent PC-to-fax communications technology, GammaFax.Kanzler, Stephen. Firm Offers Link Between PC and Facsimile Machine, PC Week, November 26th, 1985, p. 10Dix, John. Gammalink's micro-to-facsimile transmission product debuts, Computerworld, December 9th, 1985, p. 19Hindin, Eric. Gamma Technology Unfolds Software To Link IBM PC With Fax Machines, Communications Week, December 16th, 1985GammaLink fax board enshrined at Smithsonian, Infoworld, July 20th, 1992, p. 25
The company was sold to Dialogic Corporation in 1994,{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=June 8, 1994 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118450280/dialogic-completes-gammalink-acquisition/ | title=Dialogic Completes GammaLink Acquisition | journal=The Record | page=C3 | via=Newspapers.com}} {{ProQuest|424553267}}. which in turn was bought by Intel.{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=August 10, 2006 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/245427844/ | title=Intel sells some assets to Eicon Networks | journal=Calgary Herald | page=D3 | via=ProQuest}} It was then bought by Eicon and subsequently acquired by Open Media Labs, which now functions as Dialogic Media Labs.{{cite web | last=Staff writer | date=March 7, 2008 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/210167605/ | title=Dialogic Purchases OpenMediaLabs | work=Wireless News | publisher=Close-Up Media | via=ProQuest}}
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External links
- [http://faqs.org/faqs/fax-faq/GammaLink/ GammaLink 3rd Party FAQ Page]
Category:1984 establishments in California
Category:1994 disestablishments in California
Category:1994 mergers and acquisitions
Category:American companies established in 1984
Category:American companies disestablished in 1994
Category:Companies based in Sunnyvale, California
Category:Computer companies established in 1984
Category:Computer companies disestablished in 1994
Category:Defunct companies based in California
Category:Defunct computer companies of the United States
Category:Defunct computer hardware companies
Category:Defunct software companies of the United States
Category:Software companies established in 1984
Category:Software companies disestablished in 1994
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