I worked for Digital Equipment for many years (76 to 91) and for a time it was the most wonderful company. Credited with the invention of the mini-computer and for a time the number two computer manufacturer in the world behind IBM. They laid me off, and when things were still not going well and after some steep declines (guess it wasnt my fault!) they got bought out by Compaq. Digital had one of the finest services and consulting organizations in the world, which Compaq didnt seem to know what to make off and pretty well destroyed in my opinion. Then after Compaq went into a prolonged tail spin, Hewlett-Packard bought them out. I think well of Hewlett=Packard, back in the days of mini-computers they were a strong competitor to Digital Equipment in terms of their hardware systems if not as much their services capabilities. And now this, the remnants of Digital/Compaq/HP get split up, and the last of my generation who havent been laid off so far (very few of them) are nearly certain to be amoung the tens of thousands now being let go from the Enterprise side of the new HP. Rarely anymore do I meet anyone who knows of Digital Equipment, one of three companies who held the patent for and invented the Ethernet. The things Digital invented and made are all around us now though, and I got to be one of the first to try so many things like email and arpanet, usenet, global networks, clustering of systems, on and one it goes.
Posted on: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 00:45:47 +0000
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