Hello Friends, I just stumbled upon an old Motherboard box and learned the abbreviation I never was thinking of. Quite interesting, isn't it?
QDI -> Quality, Design, Innovation
Feel invited to add more!
LG, Lucky Goldstar.
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A few from mind, might not be 100% correct:
MSI, Micro Star International
IBM, International Business Machines
DFI, Diamond Flower Incorporated
ALi, Acer Labs incorporated
AMD, Advanced Micro Devices
NEC, Nippon Electric Company
DEC: Digital Equipment Company
HP: Hewlett Packard
AMD: Advanced Micro Devices
ATI: Array Technology Incorporated
Stuck at 10MHz...
FIC: First International Computers
TM Tech: Taiwan Memory Technology
AIR: Advanced Integration Research
waterbeesje wrote on 2022-07-19, 18:21:DEC: Digital Equipment
Company
GEIL: Golden Emperor International Ltd.
ECS: Elitegroup Computer Systems
CompaQ: Compatibility and Quality
ARM: Acorn RISC Machine
red-ray wrote on 2022-07-19, 19:39:waterbeesje wrote on 2022-07-19, 18:21:DEC: Digital Equipment
Company
A company that never really got the hang of naming things so they often sold products with names like <acronym for what it is> or DEC<what it is> or, the most lazy, <5 character middle bit of the part number>
Examples:
VAX - Virtual Address Extension (to the PDP-11), DELNI - Digital Ethernet Local Network Interconnect (kind of like a hub but not really)
DECserver - a terminal server, DECstation - a workstation, DEChub - a network hub, DECpc - a line of PCs, DECmq - message queue software, DECdocument - a document processing system, DECnet - a network protocol
ALR - Advanced Logic Research - (PC maker from 80's/90's)
AMT - American MicroTech - (smaller PC Maker from the 80's/90's)
AMT - American Megatrends - (BIOS Manufacturer)
AT&T - American Telephone & Telegraph - (Phone Company, sold computers from Samsung/NEC)
BSi - Broadax Systems inc - (Computer Maker from 80's/90's)
MEC - Micro Equipment Corporation - (Norcross Georgia PC maker, owned GEM and C.MORE)
NCR - National Cash Register - (P.O.S. Maker, also sold laptops and desktops in the 80's/90's, bought AT&T in 93')
NTC - Nan Tan Computer - (Baretop Laptop maker from Taiwan)
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GT - Good Times
KYOCERA - Kyoto Ceramic Company
THQ - Toy Headquarters
UMC - United Microelectronics Corporation
few more
ASI: Aquarius Systems, Inc.
BTC: Behavior Tech Computer Company
DTC: Data Technology Corp
Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun
RIM: Research in Motion
Amstrad: Alan Michael Sugar Trading
MKE: Matsushita Kotobuki Electronics
ESS: Electronic Speech Systems
Intel: Integrated Electronics
TEAC: Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company
Meatball wrote on 2022-07-20, 04:17:TEAC: Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company
Wow, I never imagined that it was an acronym .
Back in the early 90s I always heard pronounce it as "teak" (like the plant) whereas everyone on Youtube seems to pronounce it "tee-ak" and that's what Google says too https://www.google.com/search?q=teac+pronunciation
darry wrote on 2022-07-20, 06:07:Meatball wrote on 2022-07-20, 04:17:TEAC: Tokyo Electro-Acoustic Company
Wow, I never imagined that it was an acronym .
Back in the early 90s I always heard pronounce it as "teak" (like the plant) whereas everyone on Youtube seems to pronounce it "tee-ak" and that's what Google says too https://www.google.com/search?q=teac+pronunciation
I pronounce TEAC the same as you, but I'm not sure I remember hearing anyone say TEAC out loud - I sort of pronounced it in my head, heh...
leileilol wrote on 2022-07-19, 23:04:UMC - United Microelectronics Corporation
Original abbreviation for UMC used to be "Unicorn Microelectronics".
AST or AST Research, Inc. - first letters of the company's founders names, Albert Wong, Safi Qureshey, Thomas Yuen.
TDK: Tokyo Denki Kagaku
I don't know if these count, but they are interesting...
NVidia: NV = Next Version + invidia (envy) = NVidia
3M: Minnestota Mining Manufacturing
S3: 3rd Startup
SUN Microsystems - Stanford University Networks
