[Pete from Shawnee Mission]

Digital Equiptment Corp? 1960s? Wow, although not quite the dawn of digital. Amazing to think that Power plants still use MS XP.

[Fellow Traveler]

I worked for GE in the 1990’s, as a generator and excitation specialist. I routinely worked on equipment that had been installed in the 1950s. I was at a paper mill once and a lot of the equipment the was war surplus, you could tell because it had”war emergency” nameplate values. The oldest unit I worked on was installed in the 20s. The generator controls were patented during the first world war.

[grey_whiskers]

DEC lasted into the mid-late 80s or early 90s, before workstations ate their lunch.

And then PCs ate the workstations' lunch.

Then mobile devices ate the PCs' lunch.