ECD Corporation was a small, privately owned[1] American computer and electronics company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and active from 1974 to 1983.
During its lifespan, the company manufactured a couple pieces of electronic test equipment, the MicroMind microcomputer system, and the Smart ASCII terminal.
ECD was founded in late 1974 by Ronald Todd, Jerry Roberts, and Richard Eckhardt, three graduates of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
[3] Eckhardt had taken entrepreneurial courses alongside his main studies at MIT, which he cited as helping the company get a head start in the electronics industry.
The central processor board sports a MOS Technology's 6512 microprocessor that runs the computer's operating system and software; it also features 8 KB of RAM stock.
Such software packages included a BASIC interpreter with extended functionality (called notsoBASIC[12]), an interactive line editor, a machine code monitor, an assembler, and a cassette file browser.