The company was incorporated in California in 1976 as Interactive Products Corporation d/b/a PolyMorphic Systems.

PolyMorphic Systems' first products were several interface boards based on the then-popular S-100 bus.

This was followed by a video terminal interface (VTI) card which became the primary display device for their systems.

With the release of their CPU card, PolyMorphic began selling complete systems.

It was originally called the Micro-Altair, but after objections from MITS, manufacturers of the Altair, the name was changed.

It consisted of a larger chassis holding one, two, or three 51⁄4-inch minifloppy disk drives from Shugart Associates.

System 8813 software included an 8080 macro assembler and a BASIC interpreter for program development.

A word-processing system, named WordMaster, consisted of a text editor and separate formatter program.

The 88/MS (Mass Storage) was a cabinet housing dual, 8-inch (full size) floppy drives.

Bank switching between the RAM cards allowed the CPU to keep two applications in memory simultaneously.