Pertec Computer

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Pertec Computer Corporation (PCC) was a computer company based in California which made peripherals; floppy drives, tape drives, instrumentation control, and other hardware for computers. Pertec's most successful products were hard disk drives and tape drives which were sold to the top computer manufacturers including IBM and Digital Computer Corporation, DEC. It also designed at least three computer lines for key-to-disk data preprocessing - Pertec 2000 (early 1970s), Pertec XL40 (late 1970s to early 1980s, later probably sold to Triumph-Adler in Germany) and Pertec 3000 (mid 1980s, later probably sold to ScanOptics, a Philips subsidiary in the US). Pertec XL40 was also used on AmTrak to control the engine. In 1977 Pertec bought MITS for $6.5m USD.

Pertec Computer Corporation was purchased by Triumph-Adler in 1980 just months after Philips did a last hour decision to not purchase Pertec. Philips instead sold North American Philips Computing to Pertec. Due to many problems with a dual headed floppy disk drive and problems supporting the Philips bank ledger systems Pertec went bankrupt a few years later.

Pertec also made the widely adopted Pertec magtape interface standard.