1 Apr
2009
1 Apr
'09
1:46 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
Burroughs + Univac (Sperry) = Unisys
CDC was chopped up. Some of the pieces survive. They switched from
high-performance computing to storage sometime in the '80s, and that
group became Imprimis, which was bought out by Seagate at some point.
Their business services division still exists and is called Ceridian, I
believe. Their financial services division became Travelers Group (as
in Travelers Insurance), which is now Citigroup (as in the gigantic
bank). (Although the insurance-specific businesses were spun back off
at some point. Suitness.)
GE and Honeywell's computer businesses were sold to Groupe Bull, where
they survive. They still make a very small number of traditional
mainframes, but most of their customers now use systems under emulation
on Itanium processors. (Bull NovaScale)
NCR exited the computer business not all that long ago, while they were
still an AT&T division, I believe.
RCA abandoned their computers and sold the division to Sperry sometime
in the early '70s.
Peace... Sridhar
I would say to
keep it confined to older corporations that made
general purpose computers a long time ago, and still make general
purpose computers today (and by that I would mean anything from micros
to supers).
More to the point, who of the original "Snow White and the Seven
Dwarfs" still survives? Snow White, of course, but how many of the
seven little guys are still in business making general-purpose
computers? (Burroughs, CDC, GE, Honeywell, NCR, RCA and Univac).