Digital Equipment Corporation

Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering company in the American computer industry. They are generally referred to within the computing industry as DEC. (This acronym was once officially used by DEC itself, but later discarded.) .They were later acquired by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard. As of 2004 their product lines were still produced under the HP name. For many years their headquarters was in an old woolen mill in Maynard, Massachusetts

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Computer - [1] - Dairy Equipment Company - Madison, Wisconsin - Compaq - Hewlett-Packard - 2004 - Maynard, Massachusetts

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Digital Equipment should not be confused with Digital Research; the two were unrelated, separate entities (despite some similarities between the operating systems they produced); nor with Western Digital.

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Digital Research - Western Digital

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