Tymshare, Inc. was a
timesharing service and third-party hardware maintenance company competing with companies such as
Four-Phase Systems,
Compuserve, and
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC, Digital). Tymshare developed or acquired innovative technologies, including data networking (
Tymnet),
electronic data interchange (EDI), credit card and payment processing (
TTS, Western29), telecommunications provisioning (COEES), office automation (August,
Augment) and database technology (Magnum). It was headquartered in Cupertino, California from 1964 to 1984.