Old Computer Companies

From: Alan Perry <alanp_at_snowmoose.com>
Date: Wed Feb 5 10:05:00 2003

>>But DEC as a company is long gone. I am *well* aware of what happened
>>with the DEC -> Compaq -> HP thing.
>
>I don't know. A friend of mine still has his DEC e-mail address.
>
>That doesn't mean anything... up until I was layed off from HP, my
>DEC email address (_at_zk3.dec.com) still worked, though that domain
>is scheduled to go away at some point. They've been working site
>by site to remove the old dec stuff and replace it with _at_hp.com.

That's true. However, as long as a computer company's domain exists, as
long as it has a presence on the net, the company still exists in some
little way.

alan
Received on Wed Feb 05 2003 - 10:05:00 GMT