Inmac

International Minicomputer Accessories Corporation, simply known as Inmac, was a publicly traded American consumer electronics company independently active from 1975 to 1996. It was founded in Silicon Valley in 1975. The company was first listed on the NASDAQ in 1987 and later merged with MicroWarehouse (Currys plc) in 1996.

International Minicomputer Accessories Corporation

Inmac-branded ink ribbon cartridge for a dot matrix printer
Trade name	Inmac
Company type	Public
Industry	Computer Retail
Founded	1975; 50 years ago (1975) in Palo Alto, California, United States
Founders	Ken Eldred Jim Willenborg
Defunct	1996; 29 years ago (1996)
Fate	Merged with MicroWarehouse
Successor	Inmac Wstore

Inmac was founded by Ken Eldred and Jim Willenborg, who met while in the MBA program at Stanford Business School.

Inmac was the first company to sell computer-related products and accessories via direct-mail catalogs.^{[citation needed]} From its initial Palo Alto, California location, Inmac expanded internationally to England (1980), Germany (1982), Sweden (1983), France (1983), the Netherlands (1984), Canada (1987), Italy (1988), and Japan (1990). By 1989, Inmac was publishing 35 million catalogs in eight different languages, as international sales accounted for more than half the company's revenue.^[1] When the company was sold to MicroWarehouse in 1996, it had 1,500 employees and annual revenue over $400 million.

In 2005, the French subsidiary, Inmac France, was sold to the French retailer Wstore and became Inmac Wstore.^[2]