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PC Technologies Inc. expects revenues from its circuit board that speeds up IBM personal computers to move it from research and development to profits.
The Ann Arbor computer peripherals company introduced its $700 IBM PC accelerator at a Las Vegas trade show in late November.
By February, sales had soared to $1 million a month. Andrew Lawlor, PCT's chairman and co-founder, hopes the company will have annual sales of $12 million to $15 million this year. The company's other product is a circuit board that allows more terminals to be plugged into an IBM PC.
PCT's accelerator is a five-inch-long circuit board that fits into a slot in the back of an IBM PC or XT model and their clones, and speeds up the older machines to be as fast as IBM's latest AT model.
Speed is important because many software programs, particularly complicated spread sheets, may take up to an hour to process. PCT's accelerator can do the job in a quarter of the time, Lawlor said.
PC Week, the Boston-based magazine of the personal computer industry, gave the product rave reviews. It is...