Digital Equipment Corporation
Also known as DEC, Digital, Digital Equipment
American manufacturer of minicomputers
Key facts
- Industry
- Computer hardware Computer software Computer services
- Founded
- 1957 ; 69 years ago ( 1957 )
- Founder
- Ken Olsen , Harlan Anderson
- Defunct
- 1998 ; 28 years ago ( 1998 )
- Fate
- Acquired by Compaq , after the divestiture of major assets.
- Successor
- Compaq (1998–2002) Hewlett-Packard (2002–2015) HP Inc. and Hewlett Packard Enterprise (2015–present)
- Headquarters
- Maynard, Massachusetts , United States
- Key people
- Ken Olsen (founder, president, and chairman), C. Gordon Bell (VP Engineering, 1972–83)
- Products
- PDP minicomputers VAX minicomputers Alpha servers and workstations DECnet VT100 and other terminals LAT and terminal server StrongARM microprocessors Digital Linear Tape Flip-Chip modules System Modules
- Number of employees
- over 140,000 (1987)
- Website
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