The company was once a major player in the IBM PC peripheral market, with annual sales peaking above the US$200 million mark.
[1][2] The three founders of Packard Bell Electronics—Beny Alagem, Alex Sandel, and Jason Barzilay—established Reveal Computer Products as a subsidiary of the company in 1992.
[6][7] In June 1994 the company revealed their Quantum upgrade kit, which included a sound card featuring an Ensoniq Soundscape wavetable synthesis chip, a Panasonic-manufactured CD-ROM drive, stereo speakers, a microphone headset, a joystick, and 35 pack-in video game titles.
[4] Reveal's higher-end modems, such as the Decathlon, combined functionality with their sound cards, adding wavetable synthesis for audio playback on top of network connectivity.
[3] In October 1995, Creative Technology of Singapore announced their intent to acquire Reveal from the founding trio for US$65 million in a stock swap.