30 Apr
2005
30 Apr
'05
7:15 a.m.
> [ RA90 destroying DEC ]
It may have been late, but DEC really was a leader in disk and tape
storage in the early 90's, thanks largely to the technology they
developed for the RA9x. They got out of the business (selling their
storage tech stuff to Quantum, right?) just before it got commoditized
to the point where it became uninteresting (and possibly too-profit-
thin).
DLT tape technology of the time is nothing to sneeze at either, and
it made DEC lots of money.
Do you have an idea how man VAX 9000s were wold?
I would hazard a guess of a few dozen to low hundreds. I'm hoping
I'm dramatically wrong and will get corrected!
Tim.