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{{Infobox company
| name = Supra Corporation
| industry = [[Engineering:Electronics|Electronics]]
| founders = {{ubl|John Wiley|Alan Ackerman}}
| former_name = Microbits Peripheral Products (until 1986)
| defunct = 1995
| fate = Acquired by [[Company:Diamond Multimedia|Diamond Multimedia]]
}}

Supra Corporation were best known as manufacturers of modems for personal computers, but also produced a range of hardware for the [[Engineering:Amiga|Amiga]] and [[Engineering:Atari ST|Atari ST]], including hard drives, [[Engineering:SCSI|SCSI]] controllers, memory boards, and processor accelerators.

They were purchased by [[Company:Diamond Multimedia|Diamond Multimedia]] in 1995.

==Early history==
The company was founded by John Wiley and Alan Ackerman as '''Microbits Peripheral Products''' ('''MPP'''), a provider of interface products for the [[Engineering:Atari 8-bit family|Atari 8-bit family]]. The two of them were friends in high school when they developed various computer hardware for the school computers, and were best known for a 300 baud modem and a printer interface. The company was successful for some time, but a number of factors led to its bankruptcy around 1986, and its reformation as Supra, initially selling hard drives for the [[Engineering:Atari ST|Atari ST]]. Originally from Albany, Oregon, they later moved to Vancouver, Washington.

==SupraFAXModem 14400==
In 1991 the company arranged a deal with [[Company:Rockwell International|Rockwell International]] to use their new V.32bix 14,400 bit/s modem chips with an exclusivity arrangement. Their SupraFAXModem 14400 was sold at prices points about half that of the slower 9600 V.32 models of the same era, and its introduction led to a rapid downward spiral in modem pricing.

==Notable Dates==

*1986 - Supra introduces a 10 MB hard drive for the Atari ST.<ref>{{cite journal |first=Patrick |last=Bass |title=Three Hard Disks for the ST |journal=Antic Magazine |date=October 1986 |url=http://www.atarimagazines.com/v5n6/HardDisksforST.html}}</ref>
*1987 - Supra introduces the Supra Modem 2400 at $179.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Supra Corporation Speaks! |journal=Amiga Report |date=30 July 1993 |url=https://www.amigareport.com/ar119/p1-13.html}}</ref>
*1991 - Supra introduces the SupraFAXModem 14400 at $399 and the SupraFAXModem V.32 at $299.<ref>{{cite journal |title=News: Networking |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8D0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53 |journal= InfoWorld |date= 10 February 1992 |page=53}}</ref>
*1994 - Supra purchases PSI Integration
*1994 - Supra ships First 28.8 Modem
*1994 - Supra ships First Voice Modem
*1995 - Supra purchased by [[Company:Diamond Multimedia|Diamond Multimedia]]
*1999 - [[Company:S3 Graphics|S3 Graphics]] purchases Diamond Multimedia

==Products==
*Supra Modems
*Supra Voice Modems

==Software==
*FAXCilitate
*Supra VoiceMail

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/search.pl?company=supra List of Supra products for the Amiga]

[[Category:Defunct computer hardware companies]]

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