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

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 01 April 2009 02:20:30 pm Paul Koning wrote:
> >>>>> "Sridhar" == Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> writes:
>  >>
>  >> IBM not an old name?
>
>  Sridhar> That's what I was thinking...  IBM is about the oldest name
>  Sridhar> left in the computer industry.  There's Unisys still around,
>  Sridhar> barely.  Groupe Bull. Who else?
>
> I suppose Bull made computers, sort of.  

Didn't they buy Zenith Data Systems though?

> There's Philips, though I believe they quit the business some time ago.
>
> What about Siemens?  That's older than IBM.  I used one of theirs,
> years ago...

I didn't know they made computers.



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