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A lot of members were in IT so I thought this might interest some.

Major computer company's gone out of the computer business or bought out since I started maintaining computer equipment.

Unisys, Sperry Rand, Burroughs, Telex, RCA, NCR, CDC, DEC, Wang, Memorex, National Semiconductor,.....Who else?
 
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For many their first computer was Radio Shack…
 
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IBM sold their computer manufacturing division to Lenovo in 2005. We used Lenovo when I worked at the hospital and I use Lenovo computers at home, currently have 3 desktops and 2 laptops in operation, plus several old ones as spares.
 
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A lot of members were in IT so I thought this might interest some.

Major computer company's gone out of the computer business or bought out since I started maintaining computer equipment.

Unisys, Sperry Rand, Burroughs, Telex, RCA, NCR, CDC, DEC, Wang, Memorex, National Semiconductor,.....Who else?
Gateway, Compaq, Xerox.
 
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Nashua Corp. Made the disc packs for CDC and most other drives of that era (70s/80s). Pioneered a lot of the coating techniques used in spinning drives even today. Worked there for a few years in the 80s.
 
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A lot of members were in IT so I thought this might interest some.

Major computer company's gone out of the computer business or bought out since I started maintaining computer equipment.

Unisys, Sperry Rand, Burroughs, Telex, RCA, NCR, CDC, DEC, Wang, Memorex, National Semiconductor,.....Who else?
Digital Computer has to be near the top of that list. They did some stuff back in the 70's/80's that the general public didn't have access to for 20 years. Our old manufacturing plant still runs off a digital Alpha station, very stable and fast even today.

The other one that comes to mind is Commodore Computer with the very popular 80's computer the Commodore 64, and then the Commodore Amiga. Both excellent machines in their time.

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Tandy. My first computer was a TI94a. Had the tape recorder attached to write programs. This was great opportunity for me to learn I DON'T want to be a programmer... Hated that and SQL programming. I like network/server "stuff".
 
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I just realized you did list Digital in the original post, DEC or Digital Equipment Corporation.

Another one that was really good was Sun Microsystems. We used their workstations in the 90's. Much further ahead of anything for personal use.

Don't forget Silicon Graphics.
 

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