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

[Ian King]

And oh my, whatever became of that nice man Charles Babbage and his Analytical Engine?  -- Ian 
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org [cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Paul Koning [Paul_Koning at dell.com]
Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 8:04 AM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Silicon Graphics files for Chap 11 and is sold to Rackable for $25 Million

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

 >>>> You forgot a tiny company called Hewlett-Packard.
 >>> Which didn't get into computers *all that early*.
 >> Only 20 years earlier than SGI.

 Sridhar> I wouldn't consider SGI or Sun to be "early".

 Sridhar> Or DEC or DG for that matter.

DEC got into computers in, what, 1959?  That's a bit later than IBM
and Univac, but it seems to be close to the time when CDC and RCA
did.  DG of course is much later, they were started by the guy whose
design for the PDP-11 was rejected.  When did HP first make computers?
I remember one in the mid 1970s.  SGI and Sun are very new by
comparison  with any of these guys.

            paul