Name/Title
1983- Corona PPC-21 (1/2024)Tags
CoronaDescription
Corona Data Systems, later renamed Cordata, was an American personal computer company. It was one of the earliest IBM PC compatible computer system companies. Manufacturing was primarily done by Daewoo of Korea, which became a major investor in the company and ultimately the owner.
The original Corona PC was released in 1983.[5] The company went on to develop and release additional desktop and portable PCs corresponding to the development of the Intel x86 architecture through the 80386, as well a laser printer (the LP300) and an integrated desktop publishing system known as Intellipress. The latter offered either Aldus PageMaker or Ventura Publisher as software bundles. The laser printer was based on the Canon CX engine, but unlike competing products from HP and Apple, the printer's raster image processor was on an interface card inside the PC, which partially used the PC's processor for image processing thus reducing product cost.
Corona claimed "Our systems run all software that conforms to IBM PC programming standards. And the most popular software does."[6] In early 1984, IBM sued Corona and Eagle Computer for copyright violation of the IBM PC BIOS. Corona settled with IBM by agreeing to cease infringement.[7]Acquisition
Acquisition Method
EBayDate
Sep 9, 2007
