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Saitek.

SAITEK (originally called SciSys-W until 1987) was a Hong-Kong based company, founded by Eric Winkler in 1978. Eric Winkler was a Swiss technologist who co-founded Novag. During more than 2 decades, Scisys, then Saitek, produced chess computers from Hong-Kong. From 1990, the company distributed its products through its offices in the United States, Germany, France and the United Kingdom. In 1994, Saitek acquired Hegener & Glaser. The brand name Mephisto was used for their products. At this period, Saitek diversified into PC peripherals (game controllers). On November 14, 2007, Mad Catz bought Saitek. On September 15, 2016, Logitech purchased the Saitek brand and assets from Mad Catz.

Saitek in the maintained catalogue

Detailed Museum records and historical inventory records share this manufacturer room. When an original inventory entry matches a detailed record, the detailed Museum record is canonical.

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Historical inventory entries: 86

This manufacturer room is a documentation view. Individual physical machines, including duplicate examples, are tracked in the separate specimen registry.

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4Museum records
86Original-site entries
80Legacy-only records
10Museum photos

Detailed Museum records.

Historical inventory records.

This list is migrated from the preserved original website. Entries already documented in the Museum link to their detailed record; the remaining entries now have a modern historical-catalogue page while the original source stays untouched.

Historical source: Original Saitek page.