Old Computer Companies

From: Jeffrey S. Worley <Technoid_at_30below.com>
Date: Sun Feb 2 13:29:01 2003

Someone mentioned C3 the other day. That translates to Convergent
Technologies. I thing Burroughs bought them in the late 80's. I cut my
teeth on C3 gear. At age 8 I was an expert at crashing the Coast Guard
mini in Saulte Ste. Marie, Michigan.

Regards,

Jeff

-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin_at_classiccmp.org]
On Behalf Of Brian Chase
Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2003 11:56 AM
To: cctalk_at_classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Old Computer Companies

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003 vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:

> I'm trying to think of all the really old computer companies that are
> still in business. GE and Honeywell no longer make computers. DEC
and DG
> are gone. So there's HP, IBM, Bull... are there any others left from
> way-back-when? Oh yeah, there's Siemens. And Amdahl's part of
Fujitsu
> now. Do they still count? I guess Fujitsu probably counts on its own
> merits. Hitachi and Toshiba left the industry recently, after many
years.
> And then there's Unisys, with their recent turn to weird hybrid
systems.
> Did I miss anyone?

Sure... SGI and Sun.

-brian.
Received on Sun Feb 02 2003 - 13:29:01 GMT