Companies of the 1980s
Every company in the Atlas that were founded in the 1980s — 14 entries.
| Name | Years | Status | Field | Founded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apollo Computer | 1980–1989 | Superseded | Workstations | William Poduska |
| Symbolics | 1980–1993 | Dead | Lisp machines | Russell Noftsker |
| Osborne Computer Corporation | 1981–1985 | Dead | Portables | Adam Osborne |
| Silicon GraphicsSGI | 1981–2009 | Dead | Workstations | Jim Clark |
| Adobe Systems | 1982– | Alive | Software | Warnock & Geschke |
| Amiga Corporation | 1982–1984 | Superseded | Home computers | Jay Miner |
| Compaq | 1982–2002 | Superseded | Personal computers | Canion, Harris & Murto |
| Lotus Development | 1982–1995 | Superseded | Software | Mitch Kapor |
| Sun Microsystems | 1982–2010 | Superseded | Workstations | Bechtolsheim, Khosla, Joy & McNealy |
| Borland | 1983–2015 | Dead | Developer tools | Philippe Kahn |
| Thinking Machines Corporation | 1983–1994 | Dead | Supercomputers | Danny Hillis & Sheryl Handler |
| Berkeley Softworks / GeoWorks | 1985–2003 | Dead | Software | Brian Dougherty |
| NeXT | 1985–1997 | Superseded | Workstations | Steve Jobs |
| Unisys | 1986– | Alive | Mainframes | Merger of Burroughs and Sperry |