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Scott Lurndal

Don Y writes:
On 10/2/2015 11:18 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
writes:
On Fri, 2 Oct 2015 09:23:50 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

On 10/1/2015 11:31 PM, rbowman wrote:
On 10/01/2015 01:46 PM, wrote:
The Tier 2
mfgs were also technically "clones" - including AST, Packard Bell,
Compaq, HP, Sanyo, etc.

A moment of silence for DEC...

DEC, DG, Wang are at the forefront of technology. Big (and smart)
companies that will go on forever.

Sorry, it was Data General we made the PCs for, not Digital Equipment

This all leaves out so much computing history:

Electrodata (late 50's) 220
Burroughs B5000/B5500/B300/B3500 (early 60's)

The 5500 was an interesting machine in how it dynamically
maintained dependencies between (independent) "execution units"

GE-600 series (GE-635 was the internet equivalent in 1965)

And, of course, Mutt Licks! Too bad no one has tried to port
it to more modern hardware (36b is a wee bit odd!)

In addition to Multics, Dartmouth Basic was developed on the 635.

CDC-6600 (PLATO was the internet equivalent in the 1970's)

Mmmmm.... "Empire"! ;-)

I prefered DnD, myself.

And Notes was a direct predecessor of Usenet.