Three Rivers Computer Corporation

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Three Rivers Computer
Type Private
Founded Pennsylvania (1974)
Headquarters Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Key people Brian Rosen
Industry Computer hardware and software
Products Graphics workstation
Employees 150 (1985)

The Three Rivers Computer Corporation (3RCC) was a spinoff of the Computer Science department at Carnegie-Mellon University. The company was located in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. The company's principal products were a line of workstation computers called PERQ. It was founded in 1974, later changed its name to PERQ Systems Corporation, and was dissolved in 1986.

From 1981 onwards, 3RCC developed and produced the PERQ jointly with ICL in the United Kingdom.

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