Fire Machines
| The Fire Machines Logo (2007 – Present) | |
| Private company | |
| ISIN | 🆔 |
| Founded 📆 | Minnesota, United States (August 13, 2007) |
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| Headquarters 🏙️ | , |
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Key people | Mike Orth, CEO, Founder Jeff Rosner, CMO Will Bailey, CFO |
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| 🌐 Website | Fire Machines |
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Fire Machines, is a computer manufacturing company specializing in the production of small form factor desktop computers. Fire Machines was founded August 13, 2007 by Mike Orth. It assembles its computers at its headquarters in Edina, MN. The company operates an online retail store where it sells its computers. The company launched its first computer in June, 2008, a desktop computer named the "Slyc". The company sold the "Slyc" as an eco-friendly machine that is smaller than the average desktop computer. Fire Machines sells its computers with Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows XP pre-installed.[1] As of late 2010, Firemachines.com is now defunct and no announcement of the company's status has been made.
In the news[edit]
The Fire Machines company launch was featured in the Minnesota Sun newspaper. The article covered the eco-friendly aspect of the company.[2] The company gathered international attention when an article was written about it on the online technology blog, engadget.[3]
Advertising[edit]
Fire Machines gained more fame after their first advertisement aired on Mega64, an online podcast and television series about video games. Fire Machines paid for advertising time on the Mega64 podcast show, and gave them the company's first computer, the "Slyc" to promote on the show. The advertisements were included on podcasts 55-191.[4]
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