Editing Prime Computer (section)

{{short description|Former producer of minicomputers}}
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| name          = Prime Computer, Inc.
| logo          = Prime computer logo.jpg
| type          = [[Public company|Public]]
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| fate          = Acquired<br /><small>(in 1998 by [[Parametric Technology Corporation]])</small>
| successor     = 
| foundation    = {{Start date and age|1972}}
| defunct       = 1998
| location      = 
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}}

'''Prime Computer, Inc.''' was a [[Natick, Massachusetts]]-based producer of [[minicomputer]]s<ref name=NYT.JoeIBM>{{cite news
|newspaper=The New York Times   |date=July 22, 1983
|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1983/07/22/business/prime-computer-s-reversals.html
|title=PRIME COMPUTER'S REVERSALS}}</ref> from 1972 until 1992. With the advent of [[Personal computer|PCs]] and the decline of the minicomputer industry, Prime was forced out of the market in the early 1990s, and by the end of 2010 the trademarks for both PRIME<ref>US Trademark No. 73123025</ref> and PRIMOS<ref>US Trademark No. 73122880</ref> no longer existed.<ref>abandoned, expired,"cancelled"{{cite web
|url=https://groups.google.com/d/topic/comp.sys.prime/bZK4ZuDM4SA
|title=The Ultimate Fate of Prime, PRIMOS}}</ref>

The alternative spellings "PR1ME" and "PR1MOS" were used as [[brand name]]s or [[logo]]s by the company.<ref name=Pr1meONE>{{cite web
|url=http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/15917/Prime-MAN2602-Primos-Interactive-User-Guide/
|title=Prime MAN2602 Primos Interactive User Guide |publisher=Prime Computer |date=June 1976}}</ref>