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Originally Posted by theducks
Sun Microsystems, DEC, Compaq, Atari, Fairchild. Nortel. gone
Some brands got absorbed and the name dropped. Others went belly up.
When they get mentioned in older books, it is depressing.
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Nortel is a big one for me. I am (was?) a Nortel certified PBX technician. Nortel got bought out by Avaya (formerly Lucent, formerly a division of AT&T). The Nortel products are now "marketed" (so to speak) as "Avaya Blue." The really irritating thing is that, when Nortel was in trouble, Blackberry (at the time flush) wanted to buy them and not break them up, but the Canadian government squashed that and, instead, let them be bought out by vultures instead (Avaya only got one division).
Of course Nortel bought Bay Networks and basically ran them into the ground earlier so, I guess, what comes around goes around.