2 Feb
2003
2 Feb
'03
3:18 a.m.
On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Ed Tillman wrote:
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.
But DEC as a company is long gone. I am *well* aware of what happened
with the DEC -> Compaq -> HP thing.
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.
This doesn't count.
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 from accessing a full 1Mb of memory.
Burroughs and Sperry merged to form Unisys.
Peace... Sridhar