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Background
Agrisea Technologies was founded in January of 1996 by Edward Agrisea. In June, a list of model names for the computer & server lines was developed (that list is located on the Copyright page) and they would be applied to specific cpu's from AMD. Agrisea had started using AMD in computers back in 1988 and was so impressed with their performance that he made a conscious decision to only build products using AMD processors. Agrisea Technologies' primary business was on-site computer repair, sales, and training services. Some specific R&D types of projects were conducted for clients.
1998 started off with Agrisea Technologies became a non-profit corporation based in Oregon. Over the next year or so, the IRS and the State of Oregon changed their minds back and forth on the non-profit status, which eventually resulted in Agrisea Technologies Corporation [ATC] becoming a for-profit organization in 1999.
Agrisea started selling branded custom computers and servers in June of 1998 and continues to do so today. Many people are under the impression that a "custom" computer is just something someone threw together and slapped their name on it. Agrisea takes great pride in designing exact specifications for every computer or server that bears the Agrisea logo.
Many of the computers Edward Agrisea built in the 20th century continue to operate for their owners, while they are slow as compared to today's speeds, their hardware is still functional. Agrisea owns and operates a single cpu server that was built in 1993. It is using the OS/2 Warp 4.0 operating system and was built to operate the Agrisea Networks BBS and currently maintains the offline customer information databases. That server has not been powered down since December 2005 when it was moved to its current location.
A side comment about OS/2: IBM created OS/2 in the late 1980's but it was not until version 2.1 came out did the computer nerds of the world perk up. It had technologies in it that no one had ever seen before and each additional version, like OS/2 Warp, brought TCP/IP and internet connectivity. Bill Gates was saying the internet was just a fad in his book and publicly while IBM had brought us Java on the desktop. IBM saw the future and gave us the tools needed to harness it for our own use. Agrisea participated in the Team OS/2 activities for many years, advocating the use of it to anyone who was interested. The biggest demonstration was showing how Agrisea Networks worked, in 1994, it had 98 modems, 32 ports connected to multiple computers running traditional DOS & multi-line BBS's for on bbs gaming, 7 CD-ROM's operated the shareware file downloads, and it all ran in a native OS/2 window - Agrisea would play full screen DOS session games, like Mech warrior, while the bbs was operating and no one noticed.
Before Virtual Machines or even Linux, OS/2 allocated resources for each program when it started, which protected OS/2 itself in case a program crashed - You closed that window and clicked on the desktop icon to restart that program. OS/2 has technologies that even today are far superior to anything in the Microsoft pile of operating systems, which is why Agrisea Networks will be returning to operations sometime in 2012 running on OS/2 Warp!
Prior to 2004, all Agrisea computers and servers had a three year warranty. In 2004, the Infinity Warranty was introduced and placed on all active branded desktop systems. The reason that particular warranty was used was due to the extreme longevity Agrisea had noticed on all previous models.
In 2005, Agrisea introduced a new line of SMP servers, the 'Agrisea Tsunami' and introduced the Infinty warranty on all branded servers.
In 2007, the first multi-core cpu computers were released with models for specific interests.
In January of 2009, signed up (as required by Oregon law) as a manufacturer of the 'Agrisea Tornado' & 'Agrisea Tsunami' with Oregon's DEQ. Agrisea Pod, a backplane full of hard drives, was introduced.
15 November 2010, Agrisea introduces the most powerful gaming PC in the world, dubbed the 'Agrisea Firestorm' it turns Alienware in to a crispy critter.
2011, Agrisea restricts all sales of branded computers and servers to only Oregon residents.
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