Editing Datapoint (section)

{{short description|Computer company}}
{{about|the company|a "data point" meaning a single datum|data point}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox company
| name             = Datapoint Corporation
| logo             = [[File:datapoint.svg|200px]]
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| type             = [[Private company|Private]]
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| fate             = Taken over by [[Asher B. Edelman]], and broken up between 1984 - 2000
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| successor        = [[Datapoint Corporation]]<br/>[[Dynacore Holdings Corporation]]<br/>[[Datapoint U.S.A., Inc.]]
| foundation       = {{Start date|1968|07}}
| founder          = John Phil Ray, Gus Roche in [[San Antonio, Texas]]
| defunct          = May 3, 2000 (Bankruptcy)
| location_city    = [[Brentford]]
| location_country = [[United Kingdom]]
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| area_served      = Europe
| key_people       = [[Victor Poor]]
| industry         = Computing services, Systems integration
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| homepage         = {{URL|www.datapoint.com}}
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'''Datapoint Corporation''', originally known as '''Computer Terminal Corporation''' ('''CTC'''), was a computer company based in [[San Antonio]], Texas, United States. Founded in July 1968 by Phil Ray and Gus Roche, its first products were, as the company's initial name suggests, [[computer terminal]]s intended to replace [[Teletype Corporation|Teletype]] machines connected to [[time sharing]] systems.<ref name=Wood/>