February 13: Apollo Computer was incorporated (1980)

Apollo DN330 workstation

Apollo Computer, Inc., the manufacture of Apollo/Domain workstations, was incorporated by William Poduska, a founder of Prime Computer, in 1980 in Chelmsford, Massachusetts. Apollo was one of the earliest graphics workstation vendors along with Sun Microsystems and Symbolics. Apollo workstations originally ran Aegis operating system and then Domain/OS, a POSIX-compliant unix operating system written in Pascal, and used Motorola 68000-series processors. Apollo was the largest workstation vendor until 1987 when Digital Equipment Corporation and Sun Microsystems gained bigger market shares than Apollo's. Hewlett-Packard (HP) acquired Apollo in 1989 and Apollo then became a HP's workstation brand. Apollo team led the development of the microprocessor PA-RISC used for HP workstations and servers.