Companies of the 1970s
Every company in the Atlas that were founded in the 1970s — 15 entries.
| Name | Years | Status | Field | Founded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amdahl Corporation | 1970–1997 | Superseded | Mainframes | Gene Amdahl |
| Xerox PARCPalo Alto Research Center | 1970– | Alive | Research laboratory | Xerox |
| Atari, Inc. | 1972–1984 | Superseded | Video games | Nolan Bushnell |
| Cray Research | 1972–1996 | Superseded | Supercomputers | Seymour Cray |
| IMSAI Manufacturing | 1973–1979 | Dead | Microcomputers | William Millard |
| Sinclair Research | 1973– | Dormant | Home computers | Clive Sinclair |
| Digital Research | 1974–1991 | Superseded | Software | Gary Kildall |
| Tandem Computers | 1974–1997 | Superseded | Minicomputers | Jimmy Treybig |
| Microsoft | 1975– | Alive | Software | Gates & Allen |
| Apple ComputerApple Inc. | 1976– | Alive | Personal computers | Jobs, Wozniak & Wayne |
| Oracle Corporation | 1977– | Alive | Databases | Ellison, Miner & Oates |
| Acorn Computers | 1978–2000 | Dead | Home computers | Hermann Hauser & Chris Curry |
| Inmos | 1978–1994 | Dead | Semiconductors | UK government |
| Lisp Machines, Inc.LMI | 1979–1987 | Dead | Lisp machines | Richard Greenblatt |
| Novell | 1979–2014 | Dead | Networking | Drew Major et al. |