Zenith Electronics
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Zenith Electronics, LLC is an American research and development company that develops ATSC and digital rights management technologies. It is owned by the South Korean company LG Electronics. Zenith wa
Headquarters in Glenview, Illinois from 1976 to 1999 (demolished in 2018)
Zenith radio, Chicago Radio Laboratory
Zenith radio and record player advertised in the Ladies' Home Journal, 1948
A Zenith Model 5-S-220 "cube" radio c. 1937
Zenith Data Systems
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Zenith Data Systems Corporation was an American computer systems manufacturing company active from 1979 to 1996. It was originally a division of the Zenith Radio Company, after that company purchased
Zenith Electronics
…in favor of the Japanese. In 1979, Zenith entered the computer market with the purchase of Heath Company from Schlumberger for $64.5 million, forming Zenith Data Systems (ZDS). Jerry K. Pearlman said in 1981 that "there should be a big Z on the top" of anything electronic in the home, and Zenith wanted to prepare for…
Top: Logo used from 1990 to 1996 Bottom: Site of former headquarters in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, from 1990 to 1996
The Zenith Data Systems Z-19 CRT-display terminal
Zenith's Z-171 portable computer, based on the Morrow Pivot II, made headlines when it beat IBM for a contract with the IRS in 1986.
Zenith's ZP-150, released in 1984, was one among the first wave of laptop computers.