Vector Graphic was formed in 1976 by two house wives, Lore Harp and Carole Ely. Bob Harp, Lore’s husband was making pcbs (8K ram boards) in their garage and trying to sell these boards to micro-computer manufacturers. The wives decided to make their own company and so VG was born and it grew to have a multimillion dollar turnover (From $400K in 1977 to $6,000,000 in 1979). Bob Harp left his job with Hughes Research Labs in Malibu in 1977 to become vice president of R & D and was made an equal shareholder with Lore and Carole. The company had about 140 people in its heyday with about one third of them in R & D. In 1981 their systems could transfer word processing files via phone lines and one could actually run diagnostics on a remote machine. In 1982 Lore Harp remarried and became chairman and turned the CEO position over to Fred Snow. In 1983 Lore Harp became the CEO again. 1984 saw a board room battle about the future direction of VG after which Lore Harp left the company and from then on the company went slowly down hill until 1986/87. The company was situated in Westlake Village, California. USA
I worked on Vector Graphic computers from 1981 to 1984 and found them to be excellent computers with easy to use software. Now twenty years later I am trying to record for posterity the information I have about these computers as the information on the “web” is very patchy and with little detail.
If any one can add more information or correct any of my mistakes, please send me an email so I can update the site. Also thanks to Ian McCullough for supplying most of the systems shown in this site.
Many thanks
Kevin G. Mulholland – E-