InterMedia Graphic Systems Ltd

InterMedia Products

Over the roughtly 16 years of InterMedia there were several products and variations of each product. The core product was always the data conversion with the slogan
'InterMedia Makes Computers Compatible'

Most of the products were based around the disk, and then tape reading. These came in different sizes, and different platforms. On top of that there were various utilites, some short lived and others very useful

Variations of InterMedia products
  • InterMedia for DOS on Z100, MMC-3000
  • InterMedia on PC compatible system, MMC-4000
    • As above but with 'GT' disk controller board
  • Limited format version, MMC-500
  • InterMedia for Windows
  • InterMac - running on Macintosh
  • IMDrive - just tapes
  • MM/PC IMDrive renamed by eMag
  • MM/Unix running on a Sun Solaris system and Unix

Utilities
  • DOS File Editor
  • IMV32, file viewer in ASCII, EBCDIC, Hex. 4GB file limit
  • IMV64 as about but unlimited files size

IntelliBase
A free form database. This was not initially an InterMedia product but more aside hustle I started with Peter Wray. The holding company was FlexiBase. It was at a time of a lot of internal issues within InterMedia and a non controversial project was a great stimulus. The program would take moderately free form tagged text and process as a data base. The main use was for typesetting and producing catalog and directories type of output. It started as a DOS program, but then evolved to IB95 using Windows 95 and the fairly new MFC windows programming system. (Microsoft was slow giving good C++ support) One dramatic change of going to Windows and much more memory was that some routines ran in a few minutes then, rather than over an hour. It was adopted as an InterMedia project, working with OTS. Some nice projects we did were typesetting British Rail time tables, and printing statements and cheques for a financial fund company. Unfortunately it remained a niche product.