Cyphernetics

Cyphernetics was a commercial timesharing company based in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Cyphernetics utilized the DECsystem 10 computer systems from Digital Equipment Corporation. The company also had a sales offices in most major US cities and many international locations, providing communications and technical support for clients. Cyphernetics developed many products that were well ahead of their time, and whose concepts are contained in many of the most important PC applications, even today. Cyphernetics had an email system (called UTI:MEMO) in the early 1970s, as well as word processing (Cyphertext), spreadsheets (Cyphertab), project management, and time series data storage and analysis (TSAM). Cyphernetics was purchased by Automatic Data Processing (ADP: www.adp.com) in 1975 and renamed ADP Network Services. The business did very well until the introduction of the PC, and declined after that.