Stories about: Digital Equipment Corporation

Old computer products, like old soldiers, never die. They stay on the market--even though they haven't been updated in eons. Or their names get slapped on new products that are available only outside the U.S. Or obsessive fans refuse to accept that they're obsolete--long after the rest of the world has moved on.

Max Burnet has turned his home in the leafy suburbs of Sydney into arguably Australia’s largest private computer museum. Since retiring as director of Digital Equipment Corporation a decade ago, Burnet has converted his interest in the computing industry into an invaluable snapshot of computer history. Every available space from his basement to the top floor of his two-storey home is covered with relics from the past. His collection is vast, from a 1920s Julius Totalisator, the first UNIX PDP-7, a classic DEC PDP-8, the original IBM PC, Apple’s Lisa, MITS Altair 8800, numerous punch cards and over 6000 computer reference books. And more. He happily opened his doors for CIO to take a look.

On June 23, HP announced that it was releasing the source for the "Tru64 Advanced Filesystem" (or AdvFS) under version 2 of the GPL. This is, clearly, a large release of code from HP. What is a bit less clear is what the value of this release will be for Linux. In the end, that value is likely to be significant, but it will be probably realized in relatively indirect and difficult-to-measure ways.

Symantec's local managing director, David Sykes, and regional channel director, John Donovan, have abruptly left their posts.

Laptops. Notebooks. Portables. Whatever you prefer to call them, they've done as much to change our digital lives as any other piece of hardware in the last quarter century.

Two Spanish security experts are inviting computer buffs to participate in a competition to deface a Web site on a production server. This isn’t the first time a group of security professionals has challenged people to hack computer systems, nor will it be the last. What’s unusual about this contest, even if it’s not unique, is the target: a production server running Microsoft’s Windows 2000 operating system and chock-full with other software, including Microsoft’s Outlook Web Access, Apache 2.0 from the Apache Software Foundation, and WebTrends Log Analyzer from NetIQ.

Hewlett-Packard and Compaq have been for decades at the forefront of information technology, supplying services and equipment to business and home users alike. Here is a brief history of the two.

With the announcement Tuesday of its multibillion-dollar merger with Compaq, Hewlett-Packard has sounded a warning to global IT leader IBM.

An end of an era

Eating eggs and ordering bytes