Electronic Products Design (EPD) was founded in 1988 with an aim to design and develop electronic products preferably in the embedded computer field. Their first product, the EPD EPROM emulator was the first product of its kind commercially available in South Africa and enjoyed a huge success. To this day it is still used by embedded microcomputer designers. In 1993 EPD acquired the Ampro agency which, as the founder of the PC/104 embedded computer standard, was a natural fit to EPD's core business. EPD has now naturally divided into a marketing and engineering leg. The marketing side focused on the provision of Ampro and other PC/104 products while the engineering leg developed products based on PC/104. This allowed EPD to have in-depth technical knowledge about the products they sold and to develop niche products.