Progressive Peripherals & Software
464 Kalamath Street
Denver, CO 80204
USA

Year Founded: 1982
Year Defunct: 1992


The company was founded in 1982 as Progressive Peripherals & Software.
Initially, the company developed and published mainly C64 software like games or a database program (SuperBase).
Later the company had also marketed and developed Amiga software, e.g. SuperBase, 3D Professional (developed by Cryogenic Software), Logistix, VZWrite or PIXmate.

Beginning in 1988, PP&S started producing Amiga hardware - primarily processor accelerators, RAM expansions and video hardware. PP&S had also marketed 3rd party hardware, like ASDG 8MI (sold as ProRAM 2000, a sticker covered the only 'old' name). By 1992, PP&S had 12 employees.

On June 30, 1992 a fire burnt their factory to ground. The company was immidiately rebuilt as Progressive Peripherals Inc. at a different location, but the company did never recover from the fire as the insurance hadn't paid until 1.5 years later.

In 1993 the sales have dropped and 70% of their staff were layed off, and in the same year PPI went out of Amiga business and became Aspen Systems on the PC market.

Some trivia about the staff:

The proprietor of PPI, Steve Spring, founded after the demise of PPI together with Sean Moore Aspen Systems, a maker of Alpha clones. Dan Browning became later president of the US devision of Precision Inc. (makers of SuperBase) in 1988. Brian Wagner, who developed for example 3D Professional v2.0, was also working for Cryogenic Software (Anim Workshop) - and Justin V. McCormick, who developed the Framegrabber software and PIXmate, became the coder of the game SimAnt.