Re: interesting take on Olsen's "no reason for any individual tohave acomputer in his home"

david20_at_alpha2.mdx.ac.uk
Date: 11/24/04 

Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 16:25:40 +0000 (UTC)

In article <8_ednfguruIPATncRVn-qg@rcn.net>, jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:
>In article <co25q6$88s$1@news.mdx.ac.uk>, david20@alpha2.mdx.ac.uk wrote:
>>In article <8_edncIuruJnCDncRVn-qg@rcn.net>, jmfbahciv@aol.com writes:
>>>In article <41A34237.55FA3814@teksavvy.com>,
>>> JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@teksavvy.com> wrote:
>>>>jmfbahciv@aol.com wrote:
>>>>> HUH!!!! Stay within the decade. We were talking about the beginnings
>>>>> of the PC market.
>>>>
>>>>DEC started to shift to resellers paradigm in the 1980s. I fact, by
>1986,
>>>>calling dec to ask to buy a vax
>>>
>>>This happened because DEC was going out of the VAX business. It's
>>>exactly how DEC treated people who wanted to buy PDP-10s in 1979.
>>
>>Going out of the Vax business in 1986 ?
>
>Yes.
>
>>Alpha wasn't released until about 1991.
>
>So?
>
>Jupiter wasn't cancelled until 1983; PDP-10 sales were
>getting denied in 1979.
>
>

However Vax and VMS was already there in 1979.
As I recall VAX/VMS was riding pretty high in 1986.

In my personal experience we were still dealing directly with Digital in 1989
when I joined Middlesex University it wasn't until maybe 92/93 that we were
forced to go through resellers (and then that was for both VAX and
Alpha systems).

David Webb
Security team leader
CCSS
Middlesex University

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