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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