Draft:Heurikon Corporation

The Heurikon Corporation was a microcomputer design and manufacturing company founded in Madison, Wisconsin, in 1972. Their products included custom microcomputer systems and plug-in microcomputer boards. Early customers included Oscar Mayer (Madison WI), the Arrow Sign Corporation (Chicago IL), and Cuenique Billiards (Madison WI).

Early products were based on the Zilog Z80 microprocessor, the Intel 8080, and the Motorola 68000 series of microprocessors

In the mid-1980s, Heurikon hardware was used by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution to process the first images seen of the sunken RMS Titanic.

In the 1990s, a major customer was TransCore (Norcross GA) and the City Of New York for whom Heurikon designed and built the interface hardware for over 10,000 traffic lights in the five NYC boroughs.

The company offered several operating systems and development environments, including UNIX, VXWorks, and OS-9.

In 1994, Heurikon (a privately held company) was sold to Computer Products Incorporated (CPI, Florida) and was renamed as the Artesyn Corporation. When the company was sold, there were four shareholders and annual sales had grown to over 20 million dollars.

Later, Artesyn was bought by Emerson Electric.

Madison domiciles: 621 Sheldon Street (until mid-1970s), 700 West Badger Road (mid- to late-1970s), 3001 Latham Drive (primary early 1980s), 3201 Latham Drive (primary until 1990), 121 East Wilson Street (administration, sales, and marketing only), 8000 Excelsior Drive (administration, sales, and marketing only), 8310 Excelsior Drive (primary after 1990), and two other locations in Madison's Old Sauk Trails office park.