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Percom: Companies, Standards & Products

Percom Data Corporation was an early microcomputer company formed in 1976 to sell peripherals into the emerging microcomputer market. They are best known for their floppy disk systems, first for S-100 machines, and the later for other platforms like the TRS-80 and Atari 8-bit computers. The company was purchased by Esprit Systems in 1984.

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Percom topic overview

The analysis highlights Companies, Standards and Products as prominent areas in the source structure around Percom.

Related topics
19
Source areas
3
Connected nodes
22
Extracted relationships
31
Concept neighborhoods
14
Bridge connections
22

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Origins · 12 topics
Overview · 6 topics
After Mauch · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
Garland, Texas (1976)
Industry
Electronics, microcomputer
Fate
Purchased by Esprit Systems in 1984
Products
floppy disk systems
Type
Limited company

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Origins

After Mauch

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Percom connects Entity context

The extracted context around Percom shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Percom → Byte, Cassette Recorders, CIS-30, Digital Data, February, Floppy, Harold Mauch, Kansas City, Lee Felsenstein, Lucy, Mauch, Motorola, PerCom Data, SWTPC, The, The CIS-30 Another extracted example is Percom → August, Esprit, Esprit Systems, Focussing, Harold Mauch's, IBM PC, In, PC-LAN, PerComNet, Western Digital. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Percom

Top relations

related to Origins · 16
Percom → Byte, Cassette Recorders, CIS-30, Digital Data, February, Floppy, Harold Mauch, Kansas City, Lee Felsenstein, Lucy, Mauch, Motorola, PerCom Data, SWTPC, The, The CIS-30
related to After Mauch · 10
Percom → August, Esprit, Esprit Systems, Focussing, Harold Mauch's, IBM PC, In, PC-LAN, PerComNet, Western Digital
Fate · 1
Percom → Purchased by Esprit Systems in 1984
Founded · 1
Percom → Garland, Texas (1976)
Industry · 1
Percom → Electronics, microcomputer
Products · 1
Percom → floppy disk systems
Type · 1
Percom → Limited company

Important terminology

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Important terminology

company systems data floppy disk trs-80 esprit atari mauch 1976 purchased 1984 microcomputer standard drives market corporation started cassette harold

Percom relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 31 structured relationships around Percom. Examples in this analysis include Percom → Fate → Purchased by Esprit Systems in 1984 and Percom → Founded → Garland, Texas (1976). The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
PercomFatePurchased by Esprit Systems in 19841.00infobox
PercomFoundedGarland, Texas (1976)1.00infobox
PercomIndustryElectronics, microcomputer1.00infobox
PercomProductsfloppy disk systems1.00infobox
PercomTypeLimited company1.00infobox
Percomrelated to After MauchHarold Mauch's0.60section
Percomrelated to After MauchAugust0.60section
Percomrelated to After MauchFocussing0.60section
Percomrelated to After MauchPerComNet0.60section
Percomrelated to After MauchIBM PC0.60section
Percomrelated to After MauchWestern Digital0.60section
Percomrelated to After MauchPC-LAN0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Percom bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Introduced, Purchased and Started. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • floppy disk
    • Floppy
    • Trs-80
    • First
    • Percom
    • Systems
    • S-100
    • 8-bit
    • Computers
    • Garland
    • Later
    • Microcomputer
    • Platforms
  • cassette tapes
    • Data
    • Mauch
    • Started
    • Standard
    • Corporation
    • Garland
    • Microcomputer
    • Products
    • Texas
    • Percom
    • Digital
    • Purchased
  • trs-80
    • Disk
    • First
    • Floppy
    • Later
    • Introduced
    • S-100
    • 8-bit
    • Computers
    • Percom
    • Platforms
    • Double-density
    • Market
  • atari 8-bit computers
    • Computers
    • 8-bit
    • Atari
    • S-100
    • Double-density
    • Drive
    • First
    • Later
    • Platforms
    • Introduced
    • Trs-80
    • Disk
  • microcomputer
    • Garland
    • Products
    • Texas
    • Cassette
    • Company
    • Market
    • Percom
    • Purchased
    • Started
    • Esprit
    • Mauch
    • Standard
  • atari 810
    • 8-bit
    • Computers
    • Double-density
    • Drive
    • S-100
    • First
    • Later
    • Platforms
    • Introduced
    • System
    • Trs-80
    • Disk
  • atari dos
    • 8-bit
    • Computers
    • Double-density
    • Drive
    • S-100
    • First
    • Later
    • Platforms
    • Introduced
    • System
    • Trs-80
    • Disk
  • esprit systems
    • Esprit
    • Systems
    • Purchased
    • Garland
    • Microcomputer
    • Percom
    • Products
    • Texas
    • Cassette
    • Started
    • Mauch
    • Standard

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Percom, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Percom with Origins. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
PercomOrigins · splits 10 ⟂ 13
PercomOverview · splits 16 ⟂ 7

Map overview Semantic statistics

Percom

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples31
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Percom to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Companies, Standards & Products, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Percom · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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