Compaq buys DEC

From: Richard A. Cini <rcini_at_email.msn.com>
Date: Wed Jan 28 07:45:04 1998

On Wed, 28 Jan 1998 02:03:21 -0600 (CST), Uncle Roger
<sinasohn_at_ricochet.net> wrote:
> It's a shame...but it seems to me that DEC should have seen it coming.
>>Can't disagree there...

    Well, I should clarify. I'm sure that they did see it coming. A buyout
of some form was headed for DEC like a Conrail freight train traveling at
100 mph. I'm not too well-versed with DEC's current product line, but I get
the impression that, while good quality and adequate performers, there is
nothing very distinguishing.

>Death comes to the last of the old-line computer companies.
>>Huh? What about HP? Still going strong with the HP3000 (ca. 1972?).

    I probably shouldn't have said "last" either. Wasn't DEC part of the
original "seven dwarfs" of early computing? I think that IBM was "Snow
White" and there were seven other mini/main companies right behind it. When
I said "old line," I was thinking along the lines of Sperry and Burroughs
and not HP or IBM.

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