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I worked for Digital Microsystems from 1980 until 1984. The company was located in Oakland California at 1840 Embarcadero Cove. We produced many innovative products suchs as the SPX (Serial Port Expander) and the DMS-5000. The DMS5000 monitor used a mercury switch to determine the actual position of the screen for either full page letter format or widescreen speadsheet format. Our head Engineer Joe ??? was a Berkeley grad and loved his watch that had a built in calculator (c 1982).

Complete "soft" keyboard (its own 8048 processor)- any key could be programmed to command string, function or character.
The DMS 5000 was also available with an 8087 math co-processor. It was a CAD workstation and ran an early (beta) version of AutoCAD. I still remember...