Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million

And oh my, whatever became of that nice man Charles Babbage and his Analytical Engine? -- Ian ________________________________________ From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul Koning [Paul_Koning at dell.com] Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:04 AM To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million Sridhar> I wouldn't consider SGI or Sun to be "early". Sridhar> Or DEC or DG for that matter. DEC got into computers in, what, 1959? That's a bit later than IBM and Univac, but it seems to be close to the time when CDC and RCA did. DG of course is much later, they were started by the guy whose design for the PDP-11 was rejected. When did HP first make computers? I remember one in the mid 1970s. SGI and Sun are very new by comparison with any of these guys. paul