SEL advert (question)

Yes, the computer division was acquired several times actually. Initially by Gould in '81, briefly by Nippon Mining Japan(blocked due to national security conflicts with Defense contracts), then by Encore in '88, and then the Storage Products unit by SUN (the Computer products unit went bellyup as did the rest of Encore). It wasn't the same anymore with Encore, although they won some big defense contracts, they were constantly fighting against financial disaster. I was employed there when Gould acquired us, that company is still around but not into computers. It was kinda funny then, they're logo resembled the Pacman character eating a power pellet--it was during that heyday in arcades. So we made copies of the logo which included the eyes to match, the power pellet was renamed SEL--albeit to symbolize our internment by the new owners--and we put them on all the machines in the lab. The Powernode line let SEL/Gould continue to provide machines which had stronger benchmarks than DEC. I have a brief history that I've been documenting online together with some of the long time SEL engineers. I'm currently revising my homepage, it's still a rough draft, but you can see a lot there so far. http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/computers_mini_sel.html =Dan Rick Bensene wrote: