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off topic: new car advice for senior
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.
As Ken Olsen wisely pointed out "why would anyone want a computer on
their desk?" Such a great vision.
There was desk sized computers when I worked at DEC in 69. Even had
terminal displays. One competitor was Honneywell.
Greg
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