Last year Softbank paid $ 1.4 billion for 80 percent of California-based Kingston Technology Co ., the world's largest supplier of add-on memory boards for personal computers.
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These early kits required considerable labor to install, including extensive disassembly of the programmer, as the memory board was designed to mount under the main circuit board.
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Additional boards became available with time, including a 40K memory board-TANRAM, made up of 32K of third-party suppliers offered boards designed for use with the Microtan 65 system.
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Many Altair 8800 computer owners skipped the bundled package; purchased their memory boards from a third party supplier and used a " borrowed " copy of Altair BASIC.
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The Altair 8800 computer was a break-even sale for MITS . They needed to sell additional memory boards, I / O boards and other options to make a profit.
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Last year Softbank paid $ 1 . 4 billion for 80 percent of California-based Kingston Technology Co ., the world's largest supplier of add-on memory boards for personal computers.
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The Altair 8800 computer was a break-even sale for MITS . They needed to sell additional memory boards, I / O boards, and other options to make a profit.
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The other major American company owned by Softbank is Kingston Technology Corp ., a Southern California company that is the world's largest supplier of add-on memory boards for PCs.
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Under Ruettgers leadership, EMC revenues grew from $ 120 million to nearly $ 9 billion 10 years later, and the company shifted its focus from memory boards to storage systems.
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By repeatedly leading the company into untested markets, the 58-year-old executive has turned a struggling maker of minicomputer memory boards into the dominant player in one of the fastest-growing industries.
