On Sep 4, 2009, at 9:27 AM, James Therrault wrote:

>
> On Sep 4, 2009, at 8:29 AM, Dan wrote:
>
>>
>> "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
>> -- Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment   
>> Corp., 1977
>>
>
>
> Heh...   And we all know what happened to Digital Equipment!
>
> <snort>

Swallowed in the merger mania of the 90's. Compaq ate DEC and was  
eaten by HP. HP came REAL close to looking like this:

<http://tinyurl.com/aucfb>

We still have major campus systems running on OpenVMS. DEC will be  
with us a long long time.


-- 
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group

Institutions do not have opinions, merely customs



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