That's a great story. From the Oral History of Synertek, they wanted to buy some buy some PDP-11 but they had been bought by Honeywell. Honeywell had told them

That's a great story. From the Oral History of Synertek, they wanted to buy some buy some PDP-11 but they had been bought by Honeywell. Honeywell had told them they would not be controlled and have a free hand. Honeywell of course wouldn't not allow it and told them they would get a free Honeywell mainframe. And they got send a mainframe that was completely useless and didn't have any relevant software. So eventually Synertek collapsed and many of those people founded VSLI Technology. At AT&T they bought a lot of PDP-11s, they were the biggest DEC costumer and they also moved 3B series computers because they wanted to be a computer company too. Cost them a lot of money. I think the story of everybody wanted PDPs but cooperate didn't want.