6 Jul
2000
6 Jul
'00
9:52 a.m.
Paul Thompson wrote:
I believe this is backwards. The ancient ones are the IBM models.y
On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Paul Thompson wrote:
> If yours is particularly ancient
> (Rolm/Siemens) these might not apply. I believe the ISA standardizations
> might have taken place after Rolm was accquired by IBM although everything
> was still sold under the Rolm brandname.
The corporate progression was:
ROLM MSC (MilSpec Computers)
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v
ROLM Corp (ROLM MSC + CBX (telephone) division)
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v
ROLM Corp purchased by IBM
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v
ROLM MSC divested under consent decree to Loral
(the only time I *ever* made money on options)
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v
ROLM/IBM sold to Siemens
So yeah, the ROLM/IBM era stuff (which may be System/1 hardware)
is decidedly older than the Siemens stuff.
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