Hercules Company

Hercules is a manufacturer of computer peripherals, for PC and Mac. Hercules Computer Technology, Inc. was formed in 1982 in Fremont, California, by Van Suwannukul, and was one of the major graphics card companies of the 1980s. Its biggest product was the MDA-compatible Hercules Graphics Card and associated standard, which was widely copied and survived into the 1990s. Hercules Graphics Card, by including the printer port, promoted this dedicated port for printing as a faster port than the serial port. The company also produced CGA compatible cards, and also tried to go head-to-head with EGA with the unsuccessful Hercules InColor Card. After low sales with InColor, Hercules stopped making its own graphics core and bought graphics...