Old Computer Companies

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Tue Feb 4 21:55:23 2003

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, Brian Chase wrote:

> 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.

Are they even in the lame league as being old enough? Most of the
companies I listed (DG and HP are the major exceptions) have been making
systems since the '50s.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Tue Feb 04 2003 - 21:55:23 GMT