Three Rivers Computer Corporation
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Three Rivers Computer | |
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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.