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To: Calvin Locke

I barely understood this post :)

So you owned a computer called a Sigma 6.

Xerox got into the computer business by buying SDS, which i’m not familiar with and Honeywell took over Xerox.

I’m 51. I didn’t get involved in computers really until I was in my mid 20s. Perhas SDS was a little earlier or you just know a lot more about computer companies than me.

I’m going with that answer :)

I looked up Sigma 6 and did not find anything.

I’m not even sure what Honeywell’s main business is.

I did graphics and presentations creation for investment banks for 20 years. Not too much on the tech side of things


18 posted on 03/04/2020 7:20:40 AM PST by dp0622 (Radicals, racists Don't but w finger at me I'm a small town white boy Just tryin' to makne ends meet)
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To: dp0622

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientific_Data_Systems


21 posted on 03/04/2020 7:23:16 AM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: dp0622

Back in the day, the main players outside of IBM were known as the BUNCH; Burroughs, Univac, NCR, Control Data, and Honeywell.


32 posted on 03/04/2020 9:16:54 AM PST by printhead (I need a new tagline. Happy days are here again.)
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To: dp0622

FWIW: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SDS_Sigma_series

The school added a Harris Slash 7 (24 bit specialty computer with “Unix” installed for gp computing).

My senior year, they were bringing online a DECSYSTEM-20 to replace the “Honeywell”.

Naturally, my first job out of school was programming on an 8085.


35 posted on 03/04/2020 9:39:38 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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