A bunch of those names sound fake, like they should be from Fallout instead of Los Alamos.

But then I remember that I know someone who worked at one of those companies.

If the "Zero Blast-N-Peen" company operating out of "Hooker Circle" with the robot logo showed up in a Fallout game, it would be criticized as too over the top - breaks the immersion too much since it's so absurd.

	▲	jjkaczor 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I wonder how many of these were essentially 1-person consulting LLC's - which meant a probably higher degree of "whimsy", "sarcasm", or "whit" when naming... (and/or a little counter-culture rebelliousness thrown in where possible)
	▲	sk5t 36 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The Dunwich Building could use some fun business cards to lighten the mood.

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dcrazy 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

“Universal Voltronics” sounds the most made-up to me. But “Nuclear Defense Research Corporation of New Mexico, Inc.” takes the cake.

	▲	SoftTalker 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I always liked "General Atomics" (though it wasn't among the cards listed). Still opertating today under that name. If there were a Harbor Freight of nuclear techonlogy, that sounds like a name I'd expect to see.

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wildzzz 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most of these companies were probably a couple of guys in a garage or rented office suite. Labs buy high tech, low volume items and don't mind if it looks like a science fair experiment either. For every IBM supercomputer with some printed graphics on it, there's thousands of weird dohickies that look homemade.

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hans0l074 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Came here to see if anyone mentioned Fallout and I'm pleased to see someone else made the reference. I presume it is notes and texts like this that inspired the narrative designers of the Fallout series. So cool!