Abstract : Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was founded in
1957 by two MIT engineers. By 1988 it had grown to be the world's second
largest computer corporation. From this heady height it took a mere 10
years for the company to disappear completely. This paper looks at DEC
both in relation to the S-curve of technology and how it conformed to
this model in the first thirty years but missed out on the disruptive
technology of PCs and workstations in the late 1980s.Also how they did
not see the wave in the late 1990s and missed the opportunity to lead
the market once again.
Arthur Tatnall. IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on History of Computing (HC) / Held as Part of World Computer Congress (WCC), Sep 2010, Brisbane, Australia. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-325, pp.179-188, 2010, History of Computing. Learning from the Past. 〈10.1007/978-3-642-15199-6_18〉
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David T. Godwin, Roger G. Johnson. Recession, S-curves and Digital Equipment
Corporation. Arthur Tatnall. IFIP WG 9.7 International Conference on History of Computing (HC) / Held as Part of World Computer Congress (WCC), Sep 2010, Brisbane, Australia. Springer, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, AICT-325, pp.179-188, 2010, History of Computing. Learning from the Past. 〈10.1007/978-3-642-15199-6_18〉. 〈hal-01059627〉
