Corporate Profile for Convex Computer Corp., dated Aug. 4, 1995.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and information services See Information Systems. . These include Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval, Bloomberg Financial Markets, Reuter Company Newsyear, Reuter Business Briefing, DataTimes, Nexis, Dialog, NewsNet, America OnLine See AOL. , CompuServe, Delphi, Individual's HeadsUp and First!, Desktop Data's NewsEdge, UMI UMI University Microfilms International UMI United States Minor Outlying Islands (ISO Country code) UMI University of Miami UMI Universal Management Infrastructure (IBM) Data Courier, NewsBank, Information Access Company and many others. -0- Published date: Aug. 4, 1995 Company name: Convex Computer Corp.
Address: 3000 Waterview Parkway
Richardson, Texas 75080
Telephone No.: 214/497-4000 Chief Executive Officer: Robert J. Paluck Chief Financial Officer: Dave W. Craig Investor Relations Contact: Dave W. Craig Business number: 214/497-4000 Public Relations Contact: Kathy Sowards Business number: 214/497-4000 Trading symbol: CNX Industry: Computer Company description: From Convex Computer Convex Computer was a company that produced a number of vector minisupercomputers, supercomputers for small-to-medium-sized businesses. Their later Exemplar series of parallel computing machines were based on the Hewlett-Packard PA-RISC CPU series, and in 1995, HP bought the Corp.'s inception in 1982, the company has grown from a start-up into a leading international supercomputing company. Today, Convex -- a recognized leader in affordable, high-performance computing High-speed computing, which typically refers to supercomputers used in scientific research. technologies -- has sold more than 1,400 systems to over 675 customers in 48 countries. The company has been publicly held since October 1986, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol CNX CNX Canceled CNX Certified Network Expert CNX Chiang Mai, Thailand - International (Airport Code) CNX CRISIL NSE (National Stock Exchange) Indices (India stock exchange) . In 1985, Convex introduced the industry's first affordable supercomputer, the C1, which sold for $300,000. In 1988, Convex unveiled its second generation of supercomputers, the C2 Series, which offered a broader range of price and performance options. In 1991, Convex introduced its C3 Series -- three compatible families of supercomputers representing the broadest range of air-cooled systems and the largest library of UNIX-based, third-party supercomputing applications in the industry. Most recently, in 1995, Convex released the Exemplar systems revolutionizing computer systems design by offering true scalability -- scalable in size and scalable in performance with a broad range of third party applications software targeting huge and time critical problems. -0- Twelve Months Ending Dec. 31, 1994 1993 Total revenue $144,180 $193,119 Net income (loss) $(61,022) $(63,804)
July 27, 1995: 52-week stock high/low: high: 8-7/8
low: 3-5/8
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