Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million

Paul Koning Paul_Koning at Dell.com
Wed Apr 1 15:37:53 CDT 2009


>>>>> "Sridhar" == Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:

 >> What about Siemens?  That's older than IBM.  I used one of theirs,
 >> years ago...

 Sridhar> They were making electronics, but when did they start making
 Sridhar> computers?

I don't know.  I used a Siemens minicomputer around 1972.  It was
driving an ultra-accurate flatbed plotter (with servo motors, not
steppers). 

The only detail I remember about it is that it used hex, with digits
0-0 and B-G.

    paul



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