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{{Infobox company | name=GammaLink Inc. | logo= | founded={{circa}} {{start date and age|1984}} | defunct={{end date and age|1994|06}} | fate=Acquired by [[Dialogic Corporation]] | products=[[GammaFax]] | type=Private | industry=Computer | founders={{ubl|[[Hank Magnuski]]|Michael Lutz}} }} '''GammaLink Inc.''' was an American computer hardware and software company founded in the 1980s in [[Sunnyvale, California]], by [[Hank Magnuski]] and Michael Lutz.<ref>{{cite book | last=Bhide | first=Amar V. | date=2003 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ssP0yxSf0vUC | title=The Origin and Evolution of New Businesses | publisher=Oxford University Press | page=88 | isbn=9780199883578 | via=}}</ref> The company was the first to invent PC-to-fax communications technology, [[GammaFax]].<ref>Kanzler, Stephen. ''Firm Offers Link Between PC and Facsimile Machine'', PC Week, November 26th, 1985, p. 10</ref><ref>Dix, John. ''Gammalink's micro-to-facsimile transmission product debuts'', Computerworld, December 9th, 1985, p. 19</ref><ref>Hindin, Eric. ''Gamma Technology Unfolds Software To Link IBM PC With Fax Machines'', Communications Week, December 16th, 1985</ref><ref>''GammaLink fax board enshrined at Smithsonian'', Infoworld, July 20th, 1992, p. 25</ref> GammaLink introduced GammaFax in 1985.<ref>Kanzler, Stephen. ''Firm Offers Link Between PC and Facsimile Machine'', PC Week, November 26th, 1985, p. 10</ref><ref>Dix, John. ''Gammalink's micro-to-facsimile transmission product debuts'', Computerworld, December 9th, 1985, p. 19</ref><ref>Hindin, Eric. ''Gamma Technology Unfolds Software To Link IBM PC With Fax Machines'', Communications Week, December 16th, 1985</ref><ref>''GammaLink fax board enshrined at Smithsonian'', Infoworld, July 20th, 1992, p. 25</ref> The company was sold to [[Dialogic Corporation]] in 1994,<ref>{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=June 8, 1994 | url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/118450280/dialogic-completes-gammalink-acquisition/ | title=Dialogic Completes GammaLink Acquisition | journal=The Record | page=C3 | via=Newspapers.com}} {{ProQuest|424553267}}.</ref> which in turn was bought by [[Intel]].<ref>{{cite journal | last=Staff writer | date=August 10, 2006 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/245427844/ | title=Intel sells some assets to Eicon Networks | journal=Calgary Herald | page=D3 | via=ProQuest}}</ref> It was then bought by [[Eicon]] and subsequently acquired by Open Media Labs, which now functions as Dialogic Media Labs.<ref>{{cite web | last=Staff writer | date=March 7, 2008 | url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/210167605/ | title=Dialogic Purchases OpenMediaLabs | work=Wireless News | publisher=Close-Up Media | via=ProQuest}}</ref>
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