Editing Seattle Computer Products (section)

{{Short description|1970s–1980s American microcomputer hardware company}}
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{{Infobox company 
| name           = Seattle Computer Products
| logo           = Seattle Computer Products logo.svg
| successor      =  
| fate           = 
| location       = [[Tukwila, Washington|Tukwila]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]]
| foundation     = 
| defunct        = 
| key_people     = Rodney Maurice Brock,<br />[[Tim Paterson]] 
| industry       = [[Microcomputer]] hardware and [[software industry|software]]
| products       = [[S-100 bus|S-100]] [[8086]] boards, [[86-DOS]]
| website        =
}}
[[Image:RodBrockCard.JPG|thumb|right|Rod M. Brock's business card]]
'''Seattle Computer Products''' ('''SCP''') was a [[Tukwila, Washington|Tukwila]], [[Washington (state)|Washington]], [[microcomputer]] hardware company which was one of the first manufacturers of [[computer system]]s based on the [[16-bit]] [[Intel 8086]] [[Central processing unit|processor]].<ref name="Conner_1998"/> Founded in 1978,<ref name="ith">{{cite web |url=https://www.ithistory.org/db/companies/seattle-computer-products |title=Seattle Computer Products |date=15 December 2015 |publisher=[[IT History Society]] |accessdate=7 September 2023}}</ref> SCP began shipping its first [[S-100 bus]] 8086 CPU boards to customers in November 1979,<ref name="Wallace_1992"/> about 21 months before [[IBM]] introduced its [[IBM Personal Computer|Personal Computer]] which was based on the slower [[Intel 8088|8088]] and introduced the 8-bit [[ISA bus]]. SCP shipped an [[operating system]] for that hardware about a year before the release of the PC, which was modified by [[Microsoft]] for the PC and renamed [[IBM PC&nbsp;DOS]]. SCP was staffed partly by high-school students from nearby communities who soldered and assembled the computers. Some of them would later work for Microsoft.