DEC had a significant business making desktop personal computers. The first models had to be hooked up to a real computer in order to do much, but later version

DEC had a significant business making desktop personal computers. The first models had to be hooked up to a real computer in order to do much, but later versions could be expanded into stand-alone machines. Of course, the disruptive innovators were selling the whole computational environment for the same price as a VT100.