I didn't think I would live to see the day when DEC, HP, and now AT&T no longer existed as corporations. Where's Ken Olsen now?
>>we used to have so many VAXes and Micro VAXes.... where are they all now?
Sitting on people's desks, in the form of economical powerful Wintel PCs.
The handwriting was on the wall for DEC, when they released a PC without a diskette formatting progeam, so they could try to make money on selling you pre-formatted floppy diskettes. Yes, I'm talking about the unlamented DEC Rainbow.
The market went to other companies who provided more bang for the buck, and didn't try to screw the customer.