Ramtek (company)

Ramtek was an American manufacturer of computers and computer graphics displays, founded in 1971. It became a publicly held corporation in 1978. In 1981 it was generally regarded as the No. 1 company in the area of raster-scan color graphics display, printer/plotter or large screen projector. Its business was split among general-purpose graphics, applications in government, applications in the medical field and process control.

History

 * 1979 - Ramtek buys Omron's CRT manufacturing division for $1.6 million.

Products

 * 6000 series graphics computer family
 * 6114 Color-graphic Computer (1979)
 * 6214 Color-graphic Computer (1980) featuring 16 displayable colors from a palette of 64 and using UCSD Pascal. It featured a Z-80 CPU at 4 MHZ with 64KB RAM and floppy disk at a base price of $19,250
 * 2020-4228 CAD workstation (1985) with 750k bytes of RAM, expandable to 5 MB Base price: $10,995
 * Terminals
 * Ramtek 8210/UET interactive data entry terminal - compatible with UNIVAC computers
 * Arcade video games
 * Volly (1973), a Pong clone
 * Other products
 * Ramtek 3000
 * Ramtek 9000 Series Display Controller
 * Ramtek 9050 Series Display Controller

Arcade video games

 * Barricade (1976) - Genre: Skill
 * Clean Sweep (1974) - Genre: Ball and Paddle. Some see the game as a kind of primitive predecessor to Atari's Breakout.
 * Dark Invader (1978) - Genre: Space
 * Deluxe Baseball (1976) - Genre: Baseball
 * GT Roadster (1979) - Genre: Racing
 * Hit Me (1976) - Genre: Card
 * Hockey (1973)	- Genre: Ball and Paddle
 * Horoscope (1976)
 * M-79 Ambush (1977) - Genre: Shooter
 * Sea Battle (1976) - Genre: Shooter
 * Soccer (1973)	- Genre: Ball and Paddle
 * Star Cruiser (1977) - Genre: Shooter
 * Trivia (1976)
 * Volly (1973), a Pong clone (Genre: Ball and Paddle)
 * Wipe Out (1974) - Genre: Ball and Paddle