On Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:53:10 -0400
Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
What about
Siemens? That's older than IBM. I used one of theirs,
years ago...
They were making electronics, but when did they start making
computers?
Siemens makes everything from trivial electronic components to atomic
plants. They started to build transistorized computers in the 1950'ies.
(SIEMENS 2002)
Siemens bought the Zuse KG company in 1967 together with BBC, where BBC
had bought Zuse KG in 1964.
Nixdorf started in the 1950'ies and was swallowed by Siemens in 1990.
Today, AFAIK, they sell the high end stuff from Fujitsu and self build (and engineered)
PeeCees.
Fujitsu started to build computers in the 1950'ies.
NEC was mentioned already.
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