Old Computer Companies

From: Brian Chase <vaxzilla_at_jarai.org>
Date: Tue Feb 4 23:13:00 2003

On Sun, 2 Feb 2003 vance_at_neurotica.com wrote:
> 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.

Ah, sorry. I missed the "really old computer companies" part of your
original query. Are any of the early UK based companies still in
business?

-brian.
Received on Tue Feb 04 2003 - 23:13:00 GMT