Dead companies
19 entries marked dead.
| Name | Years | Status | Field | Founded by |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ferranti | 1885–1993 | Dead | Early computers | Sebastian Ziani de Ferranti |
| Commodore International | 1954–1994 | Dead | Home computers | Jack Tramiel |
| Control Data CorporationCDC | 1957–1992 | Dead | Supercomputers | William Norris |
| Fairchild Semiconductor | 1957–2016 | Dead | Semiconductors | The Traitorous Eight |
| Data General | 1968–1999 | Dead | Minicomputers | Edson de Castro |
| MITS | 1969–1977 | Dead | Microcomputers | Ed Roberts |
| IMSAI Manufacturing | 1973–1979 | Dead | Microcomputers | William Millard |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Be Inc. | 1990–2001 | Dead | Software | Jean-Louis Gassée |
| Netscape | 1994–2003 | Dead | Software | Clark & Andreessen |