Orchid Technology

Orchid Technology was a privately held company founded by Le Nhon Bui in 1982.

[5][6] It was intended to provide high resolution (at the time) monochrome graphic abilities to computers limited to text displays.

After this successful product, the company embarked on introducing high-performance add-in cards, most notably the LIM (Lotus, Intel Microsoft standard) which extended DOS out to 1M, Multi-purpose network cards that included RAM, clock, serial printer ports and Network COAX TCP-IP capabilities.

As the operating systems took on more resources Orchid made a switch back to its roots as PC board manufacturer.

They also manufactured an array of multimedia products including SoundWave 32 and GameWave 32 and the award-winning Vidiola line of digital capture and playback systems.