Occasionally you see a YouTube video or a vintage computer post about a computer branded AOpen, sometimes with an additional badge on it. It’s also easy to find individual components branded AOpen, including optical drives, motherboards, power supplies, and pretty much everything but floppy drives. In case you were wondering, it is all related.

David Farquhar is a computer security professional, entrepreneur, and author. He has written professionally about computers since 1991, so he was writing about retro computers when they were still new. He has been working in IT professionally since 1994 and has specialized in vulnerability management since 2013. He holds Security+ and CISSP certifications. Today he blogs five times a week, mostly about retro computers and retro gaming covering the time period from 1975 to 2000.










