Timeline of computer manufacturers

Timeline

1989

HP acquired Apollo Computer Corporation of Massachusetts in 1989 for $476m. The purchase was not a success for HP. At the time of the acquisition, HP, Sun and Apollo each had about twenty percent of the workstation market. Sun attained outright market leadership less than 18 months after HP acquired Apollo.

Others to add

• Apollo
• Cray
• SGI
• SUN
• Tandy
• Casio
• Remington-Rand
• VAC?
• NeXT
• Commodore
• Amiga
• Thinking Machines
• BBC Micro
• Nintendo?

• Hewlett-Packard; e.g. HP Series 80, 100, 110, 150
• Compaq
• AT&T; e.g. AT&T PC 6300
• Texas Instruments; e.g. TI Pro
• Wang Laboratories; e.g. Wang PC
• Apple Computer; e.g. Lisa, Apple //c, Apple IIe, Apple ///
• Digital Equipment Corporation; e.g. DEC Rainbow
• Osborne Computer
• International Business Machines; e.g. IBM PC/XT, IBM PC AT, IBM PCjr

(… and others; above list came from initial brainstorming only)

• Include only those that made their own processors or chips? (exclude most x86 ‘clone’ manufacturers)