1 Feb
2003
1 Feb
'03
8:13 p.m.
vance(a)neurotica.com wrote:
I'm trying to think of all the really old computer
companies that are
still in business. GE and Honeywell no longer make computers. DEC and DG
are gone. So there's HP, IBM, Bull... are there any others left from
way-back-when? Oh yeah, there's Siemens. And Amdahl's part of Fujitsu
now. Do they still count? I guess Fujitsu probably counts on its own
merits. Hitachi and Toshiba left the industry recently, after many years.
And then there's Unisys, with their recent turn to weird hybrid systems.
Did I miss anyone?
Fujitsu certainly counts, the earliest Fujitsu computer on my CCC list
is the FACOM-100 dated 1954
NEC has been around since the early days, the NEAC 1101 dates from 1958
and the currently most powerful machine is the NEC Earth Simulator.
By comparison, HP is a mere stripling, I list its first computer as the
2116-A in 1966.
Then there is Cray, recently revived but still in business.
-- hbp