Yes, the computer division was acquired several times actually. Initially by Gould in '81, briefly by Nippon Mining Japan(blocked due to national security conflicts with Defense contracts), then by Encore in '88, and then the Storage Products unit by SUN (the Computer products unit went bellyup as did the rest of Encore). It wasn't the same anymore with Encore, although they won some big defense contracts, they were constantly fighting against financial disaster. I was employed there when Gould acquired us, that company is still around but not into computers. It was kinda funny then, they're logo resembled the Pacman character eating a power pellet--it was during that heyday in arcades. So we made copies of the logo which included the eyes to match, the power pellet was renamed SEL--albeit to symbolize our internment by the new owners--and we put them on all the machines in the lab. The Powernode line let SEL/Gould continue to provide machines which had stronger benchmarks than DEC. I have a brief history that I've been documenting online together with some of the long time SEL engineers. I'm currently revising my homepage, it's still a rough draft, but you can see a lot there so far. http://www2.applegate.org/~ragooman/computers_mini_sel.html =Dan Rick Bensene wrote: > Just a question about SEL's history: Wasn't it bought out, or merged > into Gould at some time? > Anyone know when this happened? I recall for a time some computers > being marketed as Gould/SEL. > > I think some of the SEL design ideas ended up in a wonderful machine > that I once operated/administered running a Berkeley 4.3 variant of Unix > called a Gould PowerNode 9080. This machine was built with ECL logic, > and handily out-performed the VAXen of the period (late 1980's?) in a > many user Unix environment. > Al K. wrote: > >> We have quite a bit of SEL documentation in the Computer History >> > Museum archives. > > > > >

That's really nice to hear about this. I'll have to tell my old friends about this. Whereabouts is this located ? There's still a complete facility in operation that's 4 acres large at Vandeberg AFB with 22 machines using 32/55 and 32/75 series along with 2 CDC Cyber 840 machines. This is still reliable after 30yrs and used for missile launch control in the TIPS system. One of my friends runs a maintenance company that provides support to this operation. I just heard from Al Kossow that there's also a 810 machine at the Houston Computer museum. Keys wrote: