Daniel Meyer (engineer)

The projects would often require a printed circuit board or specialized components that were not available at the local electronics parts store.

[2] Dan Meyer saw the business opportunity in providing circuit boards and parts for the Popular Electronics projects.

He continued to write articles and ran the mail order kit business from his home garage in San Antonio, Texas.

In early 1967 Meyer moved his growing business from his home to a new building on a 3-acre (12,000 m2) site in San Antonio.

[3] The Daniel E. Meyer Company (DEMCO) became Southwest Technical Products Corporation (SWTPC) that fall.

Dan Meyer developed a series of very low intermodulation (IM) distortion audio power amplifiers known as Tigers, many still in use today.

Don Lancaster developed a series of decimal readout counters and voltmeters that used the latest technology.

[8] By then, the IBM PC was dominating the personal computer world and SWTPC shifted to point of sale (POS) systems.