However, the original design group appeared to be even less interested in working for Jack Tramiel than it had for Motorola, and the team quickly started breaking up.

There, they started to create a new Motorola 68000-based games console, codenamed Lorraine, that could be upgraded to a computer.

IBM started the POWER2 processor effort as a successor to the POWER1 two years before the creation of the 1991 Apple / IBM / Motorola alliance in Austin, Texas.

Founders Paul Galvin and Joe Galvin came up with the name ' Motorola ' when his company started manufacturing car radios.

Work on a Motorola 68000 version started in 1981 at the University of Bath.

Apple's portion of the computer industry at this time was transitioning from the 8-bit 6502 CPU technology that started it, to the newer 16 / 32 bit Motorola 68000 used by computers such as the Commodore Amiga and Atari ST and the Apple Macintosh.

Because of its experience in manufacturing magnetic tape heads and equipment, in 1967 the company started making tape decks for a number of foreign manufacturers including Harman Kardon, KLH, Advent, Fisher, ELAC, Sylvania, Concord, Ampex and Motorola.

It was while he was working for Motorola that Saberhagen started writing fiction seriously at the age of about 30.

The system also had an administrative processor ( based on a Motorola 68000 ) that loaded the microcode from an 8 " floppy disk when the system was started.

Tigo ( Sri Lanka ) under the brand name CELLTEL started operations in June 1989 on a Motorola TACS system and was the first cellular operator in Sri Lanka as well as South Asia.

Freescale was one of the first semiconductor companies in the world, having started as a division of Motorola in Phoenix, Arizona in 1949 and then created under the divestiture of the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola in 2004.

In 1940 he started working for the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation in Chicago ( the company changed the name in 1947 to Motorola ).

In 2006 – 2007 United States Postal Service started replacing these portable computers with newly designed Motorola portable computers ( 370, 000 units ).

The product line was started in 1982, with the introduction of the UNIX PC ( aka the 3B1 ), based on a Motorola 68010 processor.

NCR had just developed and suddenly canceled its Motorola 88000-based systems, and then started the NCR 3000 series, developed using Intel x86 microprocessors.

Other entrants in this business were Zenith, which started life there in 1918, entering auto radios in the 1930s, and Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, which started manufacturing power supplies in 1928 and went on to automobile radios under the Motorola marque in 1930, as well as Walkie-talkie and Handie-Talkie and for the Army.

By the time he started the Pentium project, a large number of established and new players, including the AIM consortium ( a consortium led by Apple, IBM and Motorola ) an Advanced Computing Environment ( ACE ) consortium formed in 1991 and led by Compaq, Microsoft, DEC, and MIPS Technologies, Inc, and a consortium by Sun Microsystems ( which comprised companies like Sun, Fujitsu, Philips, Tatung and Amdahl ), using superior RISC ( Reduced Instructions Based Computing ) had all begun aggressively working on their big idea for the PC industry and these projects seriously threatened Intel ’ s dominance in the segment.

Eumel grew into a complete multi-tasking, multi-user operating system supporting orthogonal persistence, which started shipping in 1980 and was later ported to Zilog Z8000, Motorola 68000 and Intel 8086 processors.

The company started to generate some buzz during that year, and by 1992 some of the world's largest electronics corporations, including Sony, Motorola, Matsushita, Philips and AT & T were partners and investors in General Magic.

* 1991: DartMUD is started on a Motorola 68030-based NeXT computer owned by a Dartmouth College graduate student, hence the name.

Along with his two sons Christopher and Michael, Galvin recently started a real estate investment firm, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital, named for the street where his father and uncle started Motorola ( originally named " Galvin Manufacturing ").

Galvin Manufacturing Corporation was founded in 1928 in Chicago, Illinois and produced their first Motorola brand car radio in 1930.

Helvetica is a popular choice for commercial wordmarks, including those for Societe Generale, 3M, American Airlines, American Apparel, BMW, ECM, Jackass, Jeep, J. C. Penney, Kawasaki, Lufthansa, McDonald's, Mitsubishi Electric, Motorola, Panasonic, Philippine Airlines, Target, University of Illinois at Chicago, and Verizon Wireless.

The Focus On NASA programs have gone on to win support or funding from a number of organizations including: After School Matters, the Chicago Public School system, Motorola and the Motorola Foundation, Chicago Mayor Richard M Daley & the Village of Wonder Lake.

Henryk Władysław Magnuski ( 1909 Warsaw-1978 ) was a Polish telecommunications engineer who worked for Motorola in Chicago.

The exchange had more than 400 members ranging from corporations like Ford, DuPont, and Motorola, to state and municipalities such as Oakland and Chicago, to educational institutions such as University of California, San Diego, Tufts University, Michigan State University and University of Minnesota, to farmers and their organizations, such as the National Farmers Union and the Iowa Farm Bureau.

The Chicago metropolitan area is home to many of the nation's largest companies, including Boeing, McDonalds, Motorola, and United Airlines.

Boeing, First Chicago, and Motorola were also customers.

Motorola, Inc. () was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois.

The city contains the world headquarters of Motorola Solutions and one of only two IKEA stores in Illinois.

On May 29, 1974, Motorola, Inc., sold its television manufacturing division — including its plants in Pontiac, Illinois ; Franklin Park, Illinois ; and Markham, Ontario — to Matsushita, who continued production of home television receivers under a newly incorporated entity, Quasar Electronics, Inc., an American managed subsidiary of Matsushita Electronic Corporation of America ( MECA ).

Motorola continued to operate its plant in Quincy, Illinois for two years ( until 1976 ) at which time ownership of the plant passed to the new company.

* Bob Galvin ( CEO of Motorola, Inc .)

In 1930 Galvin Manufacturing Corporation introduced the Motorola radio, one of the first commercially successful car radios.

Company founders Paul V. Galvin and Joseph Galvin created the brand name Motorola for the car radio-linking " motor " ( for motorcar ) with " ola " ( which implied sound ).

* September 25 – Paul Galvin and his brother Joseph incorporate the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation ( now known as Motorola ).

Bolstered by a $ 120 million gift in the mid-1990s from IIT alumnus Robert Pritzker, former chairman of IIT's Board of Trustees, and Robert Galvin, former chairman of the board and former Motorola executive, the university has benefited from a revitalization.

In 1930, the Galvin Corporation introduced one of the first commercial car radios, the Motorola model 5T71, which sold for between $ 110 and $ 130 ( 2009: $) and could be installed in most popular automobiles.

* Paul Galvin, invented Dry Battery Eliminator, co-founder of Motorola

The event had 17, 500 attendees and over 100 exhibitors ; the kickoff speaker was Motorola chairman Bob Galvin.

The first radio receiver / transmitter to be widely nicknamed " Walkie-Talkie " was the backpacked Motorola SCR-300, created by an engineering team in 1940 at the Galvin Manufacturing Company ( fore-runner of Motorola ).

Galvin and Lear mulled over names for the product on a cross-country trip and came up with " Motorola ".

The product was such a success that Galvin changed the name of the company to Motorola.

Paul Vincent Galvin ( June 27, 1895 – November 5, 1959 ) was one of the two founders of telecommunications company Motorola.

Founded as Galvin Manufacturing Corporation on September 25, 1928, Motorola is now a leader in communications equipment.

* Galvin Manufacturing Corporation, later renamed Motorola

* Bob Galvin, retired Chairman and CEO of Motorola

* Paul Galvin ( businessman ), founder of the Galvin Manufacturing Corporation that later was renamed to Motorola