Evans & Sutherland is still around. Micron also used to be a computer vendor (through subsidiary MicronPC) before spinning that off and doing just components.

For storage, you can add Micropolis.

Anonymous Coward wrote:

Does anyone actually miss Reveal? As far as I can tell they didn't actually do anything except rebrand other company's stuff.

They brought sound cards and cdrom drives to retail stores at good prices allowing many people with older machines to upgrade to multi media without having to buy a whole new machine. Before Reveal if you wanted a sound card you needed to mail order one or go to a computer show and hope for the best. The appliance stores sold computers and had a shelf of some apps and a few games, but you needed to go to a software store for recent games and maybe find a soundblaster retail card. Reveal sold quite a few brands of cards under their name.

Osborne is an interesting example. It enjoyed a brief success in the early 80's and then quickly vanished. Except that it didn't when a Finnish clone maker bought the rights to the name and (believe it or not) still makes Osborne computers today. They made their first Osborne right after the bankruptcy of -85 and I remember the brand was quite highly regarded and somewhat popular well into the 90's.

Sorry to bring up an old topic but am looking for the old website of Always Technology Corporation sellers of HD controllers like the Always AL-500, AL-1000, AL-2400, IN-2000, etc.
They were around from about 1990 thru 1996 AFAIK. All of the pictures found of AL-500, Al-1000, etc have no FCC ID visible and the FCC database said they do not have any registrations
Have tried various websites dedicated to old manufactures and wiki's but so far no luck finding any information. Any help greatly appreciated.

Horun wrote on 2021-08-15, 13:48:

Sorry to bring up an old topic but am looking for the old website of Always Technology Corporation sellers of HD controllers like the Always AL-500, AL-1000, AL-2400, IN-2000, etc.
They were around from about 1990 thru 1996 AFAIK. All of the pictures found of AL-500, Al-1000, etc have no FCC ID visible and the FCC database said they do not have any registrations
Have tried various websites dedicated to old manufactures and wiki's but so far no luck finding any information. Any help greatly appreciated.

None of their available driver file packages allude to anything more than telephone / BBS support so myabe they never had much, if any, web presence. Are you looking for something in particular or just for general interest?

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-08-15, 22:53:

Horun wrote on 2021-08-15, 13:48:

Sorry to bring up an old topic but am looking for the old website of Always Technology Corporation sellers of HD controllers like the Always AL-500, AL-1000, AL-2400, IN-2000, etc.
They were around from about 1990 thru 1996 AFAIK. All of the pictures found of AL-500, Al-1000, etc have no FCC ID visible and the FCC database said they do not have any registrations
Have tried various websites dedicated to old manufactures and wiki's but so far no luck finding any information. Any help greatly appreciated.

None of their available driver file packages allude to anything more than telephone / BBS support so myabe they never had much, if any, web presence. Are you looking for something in particular or just for general interest?

Just general interest. Have a In-2000 somewhere in the boxes and a recent different topic got me searching for their website (sort of had to do with Al-500 and AL-1000).
Odd that they have parts etched (not sticky labeled) with their name but no real information exists. Maybe they were gobbled up by some other company or contracted thru them and all things were wiped by assimilation 😀
Thanks for checking ! If you have some links to their driver packs would greatly appreciate those.

Horun wrote on 2021-08-15, 13:48:

Sorry to bring up an old topic but am looking for the old website of Always Technology Corporation sellers of HD controllers like the Always AL-500, AL-1000, AL-2400, IN-2000, etc.
They were around from about 1990 thru 1996 AFAIK. All of the pictures found of AL-500, Al-1000, etc have no FCC ID visible and the FCC database said they do not have any registrations
Have tried various websites dedicated to old manufactures and wiki's but so far no luck finding any information. Any help greatly appreciated.

I vaguely remember Always SCSI cards (and some associated, less than funny hygiene product related jokes based on the brand name ) from the 90s .

Based on photos, the AL-500 uses an NCR 53C400 chip . Drivers for at least some cards with that chip (and other NCR ones), can be found here http://www5.ncr.com/support/support_drivers_p … p?Class=pc_scsi

Some of the others in the AL series may also use NCR chips (possibly relabeled). The IN-2000 uses some Xilinx programmable logic chips and is likely a custom design (I would guess).

Vertex I owned 2 white box systems from them mid to late 90’s

They had a strange history going into the 80’s and sold from the computer shopper as an afterthought to their core business carrying mostly Amptron and Fujitsu their cases were notable for weighing a ton when cases were getting cheap and lightweight

and their non-white box PC IP may still exist somewhere

darry wrote on 2021-08-16, 00:39:

I vaguely remember Always SCSI cards from the 90s .

Interesting enough, Windows NT has drivers for some of their cards... And Win9x has IOS workarounds for some of their real mode DOS drivers.

JayCeeBee64 wrote on 2017-01-11, 17:25:

- Some of their branded hardware (Sound FX soundcards mostly) shows up here at VOGONS every now and then

Reveal Computer was a privately held multimedia company in Woodland Hills, Calif. However most of their sound cards were probably manufactured by Aztech not packardbell. Some of their sound cards were top notch, not all of them were copies Aztech cards. They had a couple unique ones as well that didn't have a Aztech equivalent. Aztech also made sound cards for packardbell and that's probably where the confusion comes from.

Horun wrote on 2021-08-16, 00:28:

Just general interest. Have a In-2000 somewhere in the boxes and a recent different topic got me searching for their website (so […]
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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-08-15, 22:53:

Horun wrote on 2021-08-15, 13:48:

Sorry to bring up an old topic but am looking for the old website of Always Technology Corporation sellers of HD controllers like the Always AL-500, AL-1000, AL-2400, IN-2000, etc.
They were around from about 1990 thru 1996 AFAIK. All of the pictures found of AL-500, Al-1000, etc have no FCC ID visible and the FCC database said they do not have any registrations
Have tried various websites dedicated to old manufactures and wiki's but so far no luck finding any information. Any help greatly appreciated.

None of their available driver file packages allude to anything more than telephone / BBS support so myabe they never had much, if any, web presence. Are you looking for something in particular or just for general interest?

Just general interest. Have a In-2000 somewhere in the boxes and a recent different topic got me searching for their website (sort of had to do with Al-500 and AL-1000).
Odd that they have parts etched (not sticky labeled) with their name but no real information exists. Maybe they were gobbled up by some other company or contracted thru them and all things were wiped by assimilation 😀
Thanks for checking ! If you have some links to their driver packs would greatly appreciate those.

Driver & some general interest links for Always Technology

SCO UNIX / Insite Floptical / ASPI / CD Drivers - http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/pier-01/017A/index.html

IN-2000 OS/2 Drivers - https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2F … Fdrivers%2Fscsi

IN-2000 NIB/NOS Pics - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/always … card-2021697208

XILINX Story Link - https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog … ons/ba-p/730359

The IN-2000 Designer??? - https://th.linkedin.com/in/johan-olstenius

IN-2000 Manual (TXT) - https://www.pcorner.com/list/HDUTIL/IN2000M.ZIP/INFO/

Old Ebay Sale - https://www.ebay.com/itm/133569636809?nma=tru … =p2047675.l2557

CD-ROM Drivers - https://archive.org/details/alwayscdromdrivers

SCSI miniport - https://www.opendll.com/index.php?file-downlo … on=4.10.0.1998#

PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2021-08-16, 04:49:

Driver & some general interest links for Always Technology SCO UNIX / Insite Floptical / ASPI / CD Drivers - http://annex.retroa […]
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Driver & some general interest links for Always Technology
SCO UNIX / Insite Floptical / ASPI / CD Drivers - http://annex.retroarchive.org/cdrom/pier-01/017A/index.html
IN-2000 OS/2 Drivers - https://hobbes.nmsu.edu/?path=%2Fpub%2Fos2%2F … Fdrivers%2Fscsi
IN-2000 NIB/NOS Pics - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/always … card-2021697208
XILINX Story Link - https://forums.xilinx.com/t5/Xcell-Daily-Blog … ons/ba-p/730359
The IN-2000 Designer??? - https://th.linkedin.com/in/johan-olstenius
IN-2000 Manual (TXT) - https://www.pcorner.com/list/HDUTIL/IN2000M.ZIP/INFO/
Old Ebay Sale - https://www.ebay.com/itm/133569636809?nma=tru … =p2047675.l2557
CD-ROM Drivers - https://archive.org/details/alwayscdromdrivers
SCSI miniport - https://www.opendll.com/index.php?file-downlo … on=4.10.0.1998#

Thanks ! Grabbed the drivers and txt manual.
For whatever reason maybe they (Always) never had a website. The web was just getting going 1995-96 and that is when their last products came out AFAIK..

I did find drivers for most of the Always adapters years ago in a version of Corel SCSI 2.0 and also the now totally defunct http://www.cdrom-drivers.com and http://www.storagedrivers.com/
Just recently discovered that GoldStar included an OEM version of Corel 2.0 with two of their scsi cdroms and the files are still downloadable thru Way Back.
They contain all the DOS ASPI drivers for Always adapters too. You may be interested: http://web.archive.org/web/20000816072710/htt … om/drivers.html
The drivers you want are for the GCD-300b and 320B. I picked up Corel SCSI 2.04 Gold upgrade disks+manual at a thrift store which works with the OEM and also the Corel SCSI for PD 2.1 seems to have the drivers too.

Just wish I could find a website for the now defunct company.

Thank you both for looking for me !