1 May
2006
1 May
'06
10:33 a.m.
"John Allain" <allain at panix.com> wrote:
I'm not so sure you can attribute it to DEC. Even in the 40's and
50's, for example, most rack-mountable radio and electronics
test equipment fit in 19" racks, and this pretty drove
the instrumentation and process control into the 19" form factor,
and that's the industry that DEC was in even before they started
making computers. So yeah, DEC was one of the early instrumentation/
process control manufacturers to make computers, but I wouldn't
say they "picked" that standard.
Tim.
19" racks
are the defacto standard in the computer industry.
Beginning to sound like DEC set the 19" computing standard,
perhaps just out of convenience, just picking one available width,
and sticking with it, starting as early as the late 1950's