Convergent Technologies, Inc., was an American computer company formed by a small group of people who left Intel Corporation and Xerox PARC in 1979.

[2] Among the founders were CEO Allen Michels, VP Engineering Bob Garrow, head of marketing Kal Hubler, and operating system architect Ben Wegbreit.

[7] The "Ultra" team was assembled and their pioneering mobile computing product, the WorkSlate, released in November 1983.

[8][9] Michels, Sanders, Wegbreit, and another executive left in October 1985 to form The Dana Group.

[15] Introduced in November 1981,[16] the next product was a cost-reduced desktop version called the AWS (Application Workstation) utilizing an Intel 8275 CRT controller instead of the custom video board used in the IWS.

The IWS and AWS were compatible and ran in an RS-422 clustered environment under the proprietary Convergent Technologies Operating System (CTOS).

The AWS was replaced by the modular NGEN (Next Generation) workstation in late 1983,[21] based on the Intel 80186 microprocessor.

It was sold as the M1000 by McDonnell Douglas Computer Systems Company (previously known as Microdata Corporation) who included a copy of their Pick-based Reality relational database which ran on MS-DOS.

(A successor to the NGEN called the SuperGen and based on the Intel 80486 was introduced in 1993 by Unisys, approximately 5 years after it had acquired Convergent Technologies.)

The WorkSlate utilized a mini-cassette for voice- and data-recording and for loading a range of pre-packaged add-on applications called TaskWare to handle jobs such as the management of personal expenses, calendars, etc.

[29] Motorola/Four-Phase pioneered development of international character support for Unix platforms for their EMEA business using the CTOS/CTIX equipment.

Convergent developed the integrated voice/data Personal Terminal 510A (analog) and 510D (digital) for AT&T,[30] introduced in March 1985.

The terminals featured a unique gel-based 9" touch screen providing a soft, cushiony feel.