Old Computer Companies

From: vance_at_neurotica.com <(vance_at_neurotica.com)>
Date: Tue Feb 4 21:56:20 2003

But Hitachi still makes *computers*. DG no longer does. I listed HP.

Peace... Sridhar

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003, evan wrote:

> Hitachi and IBM merged their disk drives groups, into
> a new co-owned company, Hitachi Global Storage
> Technologies (www.hgst.com). DEC was bought by
> Compaq, ergo HP. DG was bought by EMC.
>
> --- 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?
> >
> > Peace... Sridhar
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