Robotron
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- This article is about the company. For the arcade game, see Robotron: 2084. For other meanings of the word, see Robotron (disambiguation).
Robotron was the biggest East German electronics manufacturer. It was based in Dresden and employed 30,000 people. It produced television sets, personal computers and the ESER mainframes.
Robotron managed different entities:
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- VEB Robotron-Elektronik in Hoyerswerda
- VEB Robotron-Elektronik in Radeberg
- VEB Robotron Vertrieb Berlin, mit Betriebsteil in Stralsund
- VEB Robotron-Elektronik in Zella-Mehlis
- VEB Robotron-Elektronik in Hoyerswerda
- VEB Robotron Büromaschinen in Sömmerda
- VEB Robotron Elektronik in Riesa
[edit] Rebranding activities
Robotron was unable to manufacture certain appliances, but the GDR did not want to admit this, either to the West or to their own people. For example, EPSON printers were imported from Japan, then rebranded. An example can be seen in the Stasi Archive Museum, Berlin.
Just before German Reunification, on 23 August 1990 the Robotron database software company was split off.
