Pension pot for £15k

greenglide

Bought by Hewlett Packard, which in turn was bought by Compaq.

In my understanding it was HP bought / merged with Compaq not the other way round.

Was a Burroughs customer in the early 1970s before ICL which am still involved with (name / ownership changed) today!

Pincher

greenglide wrote: »

In my understanding it was HP bought / merged with Compaq not the other way round.

Was a Burroughs customer in the early 1970s before ICL which am still involved with (name / ownership changed) today!

Good grief, I was in secondary school in the 1970s.
We did have a 300Baud teletype connected to the town hall ICL 1960S. 64KB core store, MAXIMOP. Didn't ICL go into the "solutions" business? The 2900 Series code share scheme under VMS should be a textbook example of architectural design.


Yes, it was a merger, but I always thought HP was in trouble, and needed a shotgun marriage. They were floundering in retail, selling lots, but still lost money. Compaq was sitting pretty with high profit margin enterprise systems. Optical data bus, none of that SATA domestic non-sense. Clustered iNTEL processors. Sizzles.


I was from the Sperry side. DCP, line modules, OS-1100.

kidmugsy

Pincher wrote: »

DEC Digital Equipment Corporation was in mini-computers (VAX), not main frame.

I played Tanks on a PDP-8.

Pincher

kidmugsy wrote: »

I played Tanks on a PDP-8.

On a Tektronix raster display.


Stop the nostalgia, no more sobbing.

kidmugsy

Pincher wrote: »

Stop the nostalgia, no more sobbing.

No nostalgia from me. I thought Macs were excellent when they first appeared.

greenglide

but I always thought HP was in trouble

Doesn't HP lurch from one crisis to another?

Ongoing Autonomy, previously Palm / WebOS, Compaq and Carly Fiorina .....

And I was offered a job by ICL (head hunted!) in the late 1970s but I turned them down.

Pincher

greenglide wrote: »

And I was offered a job by ICL (head hunted!) in the late 1970s but I turned them down.

As we said at my last company, ******* is full of people with a brilliant career BEHIND them. Hehehe.