Final Abacus North Logo

This logo was used from the late 80's until we closed. The beads in the Abacus read 1980. Made with a primitive graphics program (compared to Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator, which came later)

Abacus North: A Brief History
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Boom Times

  

The Midlife Crisis

  

The End Game

Original Abacus North Logo designed with stick-on Letraset type

 

 Timeline 

This is the logo we used in 1980 , made
with Letraset
(paste on letters).
 Apple system with floppy drive and monitor Epson MX-80 dot matrix printer Basis 108 Apple/CPM machine - German made NEC APC - our AutoCAD computer Kaypro II portable CP/M computer Epson QX-10 Computer System First Laptop - Epson HX-20 Corona Portable MS-DOS System dBase III Plus Software Package Ventura Publisher 4 for Windows dBase IV Software Package Generic Abacus North Shop Built PC Clone Novell Network Software Logo 1993 Alaska Vacation Planner Cover Netscape Navigator - First decent web browser Borland Visual dBase 7 Software Package
Computers Apple ][ + Apple and Apple with Z-80 card for CP/M

Basis 108, NEC PC-8801, Epson HX-20, Kaypro II

Kaypro IV, 10; NEC APC III; Epson HX-20, QX-10 Kaypro 4, 2X, NEC APC, Corona, Epson QX-16

HX-20; Kaypro 16, PC, AT, 286i and 2000 (laptop); Corona PCs

 Corona PCs, Kaypro 1 and 386 (desktop), Epson Laptops Epson PCs, Toshiba Laptops, Kaypro 386, Corona PCs Kaypro PCs, Epson PCs, Misc. Laptops, Clone PCs Kaypro PCs, Epson PCs, Toshiba Laptops Clones, including Mitsuba, assembled in our Shop Most PCs after this date are shop built at Abacus North PC Clones, Toshiba Laptops PC Clones, Toshiba and AMS Laptops PC Clones, Toshiba and AMS Laptops PC Clones, Toshiba and AMS Laptops
PC Processor/Speed MOS 6502 1MHz Z-80/2.5 MHz
IBM PC 4.77MHz		 NEC µPD780C
2.5MHz, Basis: 1Mhz 6502 & 2MHz Z80		 NEC µPD-8086
5 MHz		 Kapro: Zilog Z80 2.5 MHz
Corona: Intel 8088 4.77MHz		 Kaypro 286i 6MHz
QX-10 at 4MHz		 HX-20 Dual Hitachi 6301 at 0.614MHz Corona 4.77MHz
Kaypro: Intel 386 20MHz		 80386DX 25MHz 486DX 33MHz 386SL 20MHz 486SX 33MHz 486DX2 50MHz Intel Pentium 60MHz Pentium 75MHz Pentium Pro 200MHz
Printers Centronics 770 Epson MX-80 Epson MX-80 Epson MX with graphics and NEC Epson RX-80 and NEC Epson Dot Matrix, Lasers from NEC & Corona LP300 Epson LQ-800, NEC & Corona Lasers Epson and NEC Epson and NEC Epson LQs and NEC, some Toshiba Epson, NEC Epson, NEC Epson, Lexmark Epson, Lexmark Epson 720 dpi Inkjet, Lexmark Epson, Lexmark
Date 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995
Software Space Eggs, Integer BASIC, Robot Wars VisiCalc, Miscellaneous
Apple		 CP/M, Wordstar, Multiplan CP/86, AutoCAD
Valdocs, Wordperfect, Lotus 123		 CP/M, CP/M-86,MS-DOS, MS Excel ships MS-DOS, MS Word, Turbo Pascal, Valdocs MS-DOS, Lotus 123, Compu-
Serve, MS Works		 MS-DOS, Excel for Windows, Lotus 123, Windows 2 MS-DOS, WordPerfect 4.2, Lotus 1-2-3 2.01, dBase III Plus

MS-DOS, Gem, Lantastic, Ventura Publisher, dBase IV

MS-DOS, dBaseIV,Ventura, Peachtree Accounting

 Novell, dBaseIV, Ventura, Great Plains Software Novell, dBaseIV, Ventura, Act! Database Novell, dBaseIV, Ventura, WWG 3.11, Windows NT Novell, Netscape Navigator, dBaseIV, Ventura, MS Encarta on CD Novell, Visual dBase, Ventura, Windows 95, MS Office
Service Apple Apple Apple, NEC, Basis, Epson Authorized Service Center Apple, Kaypro, NEC, Epson Apple, NEC, Kaypro, Epson Kaypro PC, AT, 386 and 2000 (laptop) Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training Software,Hardware Support, Programming, Training
Events Sell 1st computer to Wonder's Greenhouse, Locate at 511 W. 4th Ave.

Jennifer Full Time, Go to SF W. Coast Computer Faire

 Buy Corvus HD, 10MB $5000, Ron also Full Time, BBS online AK Fish & Game buys HX20s for field data collection Anch. SD buys Epson Printers from us.
Mac Introduced		 AN has 1st Laser Printer cost $5000 and 1X CD-ROM drive for $500 Dell selling mail order PCs. Move to new Location - 430 W. 7th Ave.

Begin installing Lantastic networks. 10k hosts now on internet.

 Began the move to more services including database work. HUD Ads. Jennifer trains on Novell, Work starts on AK Vacation Planner. Kaypro files for bankruptcy. Ron goes to CA for Ventura conference Linux Released. Using Novell now in house. Windows 3.1 shipped. Lexmark added for Laser Printer Quality

Novel Networked Work Stations to Magadan, Russia.

Last Vacation Planner Issue with our code and typesetting DVD introduced. Store Closes - We move to NY