Old Computer Companies

Actually, DEC is still somewhat around -- it was absorbed into Compaq in 1997, and, of course, Compaq was absorbed into HP last year. As such, HP now holds all the rights and histories to everything DEC and Compaq. DEC/Compaq provided contract on-site tech support to my current and past two retail firms. HP provides those services now, with the same (if older) DEC and Compaq field techs. I still work with many of them in my current tech support position. I don't know about DG at all, but Honeywell still makes peripherals, including digital cameras, for modern systems. Honeywell's done cameras, through its photographic division, since at least 1959, in association with the Japanese firms Petri and (later) Pentax. They also had flirting relationships with Vivitar and Minolta. I still love my ancient Honeywell/Pentax 35mm and it's Vivitar lens collection. And, while we're asking, does anyone know what happened to Burroughs? As I left the Air Force in 1991, I was working with a cantankerous, already jurassic, cobbled-together system produced by "Convergent Technologies -- an abortive fusion of Burroughs and NCR. It's "banded" 512K memory board nearly neasured a square foot by 1.5" thick, and was banded to *prevent* it And further... Where did DataPoint go? I remember it was absorbed by some other firm, but don't remember by whom. As I remember though, they made a nearly indestructable external modem, back in the 12-2400bps days... Cheers! Ed San Antonio, Tx, USA From: "Hans B Pufal" <hansp(a)aconit.org> DG years.