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Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC /dɛk/), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline.

Comment: enDigital Equipment Corporation (DEC /dɛk/), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline.
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DifferentFrom: Digital Research; Western Digital
Fate: enAcquired by Compaq, after divestiture of major assets.
Founder: Harlan Anderson; Ken Olsen
Has abstract: enDigital Equipment Corporation (DEC /dɛk/), using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline. The company produced many different product lines over its history. It is best known for the work in the minicomputer market starting in the mid-1960s. The company produced a series of machines known as the PDP line, with the PDP-8 and PDP-11 being among the most successful minis in history. Their success was only surpassed by another DEC product, the late-1970s VAX "supermini" systems that were designed to replace the PDP-11. Although a number of competitors had successfully competed with Digital through the 1970s, the VAX cemented the company's place as a leading vendor in the computer space. As microcomputers improved in the late 1980s, especially with the introduction of RISC-based workstation machines, the performance niche of the minicomputer was rapidly eroded. By the early 1990s, the company was in turmoil as their mini sales collapsed and their attempts to address this by entering the high-end market with machines like the VAX 9000 were market failures. After several attempts to enter the workstation and file server market, the DEC Alpha product line began to make successful inroads in the mid-1990s, but was too late to save the company. DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq in what was at that time the largest merger in the history of the computer industry. During the purchase, some parts of DEC were sold to other companies; the compiler business and the Hudson Fab were sold to Intel. At the time, Compaq was focused on the enterprise market and had recently purchased several other large vendors. DEC was a major player overseas where Compaq had less presence. However, Compaq had little idea what to do with its acquisitions, and soon found itself in financial difficulty of its own. The company subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard (HP) in May 2002.
Hypernym: Company
Id: enDigital+Equipment+Corporation
ImageCaption: enAssabet Woolen Mill, former headquarters of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1992
Industry: Computer hardware; Computer services; Computer software
Is primary topic of: Digital Equipment Corporation
KeyPeople: C. Gordon Bell; Ken Olsen
Label: enDigital Equipment Corporation
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Location: enMaynard, Massachusetts, United States
Logo: enFile:Digital Equipment Corporation 1993 logo.svg
Name: enDigital Equipment Corporation
NumEmployees: enover 140,000
Products: enAlpha servers and workstations; enLAT and Terminal server; enPDP minicomputers; enStrongARM microprocessors; enVAX minicomputers; enVT100 terminal; DECnet; Digital Linear Tape
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SameAs: 144233329
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Sname: enDigital Equipment Corporation
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Successor: enHP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise; Compaq; Hewlett-Packard
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