Columbia Data Products

Columbia Data Products, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryData security
Founded1976 (1976)
FounderWilliam Diaz
Headquarters,
Websitewww.cdpi.com

Columbia Data Products, Inc. (CDP) is a company which produced the first legally reverse-engineered IBM PC clones, starting with the MPC 1600 series in 1982. It faltered in that market after only a few years, and later reinvented itself as a software development company.