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Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

Dead IT giants: A top 10 of the fallen

...as little more than a footnote in the annals of business technology. Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) DEC's PDP-8 may not look so small... Read more

19 November, 2010 by David Meyer
DEC's 40 years of innovation

DEC's 40 years of innovation

...Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, died on 6 February, aged 84. In the 40 years... Read more

12 February, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins

Ken Olsen, DEC co-founder, dies at 84

...Olsen, co-founder of the defining technology company of a bygone era, Digital Equipment Corporation, has died. He was 84. DEC co-founder Ken Olsen... Read more

8 February, 2011 by Tom Krazit
Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

Dennis Ritchie, father of Unix and C, dies

As one of the founders of modern computing, Dennis Ritchie's contributions to software are legendary within the industry, yet deserve to be known to all Read more

13 October, 2011 by Rupert Goodwins
Spacewar game marks 50th anniversary

Spacewar game marks 50th anniversary

...This is a picture from the manual of the PDP-1, which Digital Equipment Corp started making in 1959. It was a break from the... Read more

13 February, 2012 by Martin LaMonica

HP kills WebOS, may sell off PC division

Hewlett-Packard, the world's largest IT company, announced moderate financial results tonight -- quarterly turnover up... Read more

18 August, 2011

AMD chief Dirk Meyer resigns

...name, according to AMD. He was involved in the design of both Digital Equipment's Alpha and AMD's Opteron server chips. "Dirk is a... Read more

11 January, 2011 by Jack Clark
Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

Trite but right: Dull IT that made it big

...received any messages sent by any of the others. Metcalfe later convinced Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel and Xerox to promote Ethernet as a standard, and... Read more

11 December, 2010 by Matthew Broersma

EU supports digital cinemas, wants more European films

...that independent and smaller cinemas are unable to make the switch to digital equipment as the associated cost is too high. It found that the... Read more

27 September, 2010

Microsoft signs deal to license ARM chip architecture

...XScale name. These were derived from the DEC StrongARM line, as the Digital Equipment Corp team moved to Intel after the company was acquired by... Read more

23 July, 2010 by Jack Schofield
CSI Rentals 2.0

CSI Rentals 2.0

...choose the right equipment for a successful photo shoot. Rent Photo and Digital equipment in New York City and Nationwide Rentals Confidence! CSI Rentals Main... Read more

22 July, 2011
Bolt Productions Photography Equipment 2.0

Bolt Productions Photography Equipment 2.0

...right equipment for a successful still or motion shoot. Rent Photo and Digital equipment in Dallas, TX and Nationwide with Confidence! If you need a... Read more

22 July, 2011
Sun Scout by imediastore 1.0

Sun Scout by imediastore 1.0

...to keep our customers up to date with the latest mobile and digital equipment to keep you mobile and communicating. You can check us out... Read more

20 March, 2011

A Year Ago: The Mitnick release - Is it over?

...1989, he suffered his first adult felony conviction for cracking computers at Digital Equipment Corporation and downloading source code. He served one year in federal... Read more

22 January, 2001 by Kevin Poulsen

AMD busts out 850MHz Athlon

...pipeline that runs between the processor and other system components -- based on Digital Equipment's Alpha EV6 bus. AMD is expected to move the chip... Read more

11 February, 2000 by John G.Spooner

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