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Same, but also hoping they'll call the corporate hardware/services company "DEC."
by ben1040 12y ago
Same, but also hoping they'll call the corporate hardware/services company "DEC."
- pera 12y agoThe return of Compaq and DEC? That would be lovely!
- Theodores 12y agoMaybe they should have kept some of those brands on, the consumer PC division as Compaq, the 'clever stuff' as DEC with printers and high end hardware in HP.
- lnon 12y agoplease no more DECs or COMPAQs. They were both failed businesses that deserve to be dead and buried. Failed businesses run by some pretty poor managers and executives. At least HP is a survivor....remember, they bought COMPAQ, not the other way around.....
- judk 12y agoHP bought Compaq presumably because they couldn't just beat Compaq in the market.
- joshmn 12y agoMy father worked for DEC; when it got bought out by Compaq, he worked for Compaq; when that got bought out by HP, he worked for HP (and still does). He's an enterprise-level field-service tech. He's the go-to guy for most HPs largest clients in Minnesota (UHG, USPS, 3M, UMN all come to mind), and in the Upper-Midwest. He's always said that DEC did the most incredible stuff out of all the generations of hardware he's seen.
- ci5er 12y agoI was really sad to see DEC SRC and WRL go the way of the dodo. Really good stuff. Microsoft picked up a lot of the folks, but, still...
- TheOtherHobbes 12y agoDEC engineering was awesome, but management had issues keeping up with their chip geniuses. There's a brilliant scene in DEC history where the chip guys had to explain to the board that their latest ceramic thing with legs cost $30 in quantity, and it outperformed the top-line million-dollar ECL-based room-filling VAX product. But DEC were always B2B and B2A (Business to Academia). They never got B2C at all, which is sad for everyone.
- whyenot 12y agoSounds good. Then Agilent can change its name to HP and all will be right with the universe :)
- maho 12y agoYou mean KeySight?
- jordanthoms 12y agoOnly if they start making calculators again!
- epo 12y agoOnly if they start making programmable RPN calculators again.