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Digital Equipment Corporation

Maynard, United States · Founded 1957 · Merged: Merged into Compaq, according to Wikidata.

Digital Equipment Corporation was founded in 1957 by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, and is based in Maynard, United States. It was merged into another company in 1998.

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joint-stock company

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American manufacturer of minicomputers

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In context

We hold 9 other computer industry companies. 3 of them have closed, after a median of 25 years, and 6 have no closure recorded.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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