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AMERICAN TOTALIZATOR CORPORATION

A division of General Instrument Corp. It manufactured tote boards for the horse racing industry.

See Harry L. Straus .


JERROLD

GI's original cable TV brand, active from 1948 into the early 1990s. Around 1993, GI dropped the Jerrold branding.


GI MICROELECTRONICS

GI Microelectronics was a manufacturer of LSI circuits and a pioneer in MOS technology and EAROM (Electrically Alterable ROM), with both off-the-shelf and custom circuits. GI spun the division off as Microchip Technology in 1989 .

In 1980, their product catalog included:

  • 16-bit Microprocessor: 1600 and 1610 , a 16-bit CPU, used in the GIMINI TV-game set and in Mattel 's Intellivision

  • 8-bit Microcontroller: The PIC1650, an NMOS chip. The CMOS version of this chip is the basis of today's PIC microcontrollers

  • ROM

  • EAROM

  • Telecommuncations chips


Other products were the SP0256 , a single-chip speech generator, and the famous AY-3-8910/11/12 series of Sound Chip s.