Digital Systems

Digital Systems Inc., was an American accounting service and technology development company active between 1966^[1] and 1979.^[1] It was founded by John Q. Torode in Seattle, Washington.^{[2][3][1][4][5]} The company was reorganized into the microcomputer design and development company Digital Microsystems, Inc. (DMS),^[5] Oakland, USA, founded in 1979.^[6] In 1984, it was sold to the new UK operation Digital Microsystems Ltd. (DML) (owned by Extel Group Plc)^[7] and finally ended its US operations in 1986.^[1][5] Without Torode, Digital Microsystems Ltd.'s product HiNet (Hierarchical Integration Network) was sold to Apricot Computers Plc in 1987.^[8] In 1986, Torode founded a new company, IC Designs, Inc., based partly on Theodore "Ted" H. Kehl's VLSI technology at the University of Washington (UW),^[1][9] which was bought by Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in 1993.^[9]