{"id":16375,"date":"2023-01-26T14:42:33","date_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/compaq-purchases-dec-5\/"},"modified":"2023-01-26T14:42:33","modified_gmt":"2023-01-26T14:42:33","slug":"compaq-purchases-dec-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/compaq-purchases-dec-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Compaq Purchases DEC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-586\" title=\"DEC Logo\" alt=\"DEC Logo\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/62ad6__Digital_Equipment_Corporation_1987_logo.png\" width=\"187\" height=\"56\" \/>January 26, 1998<\/p>\n<p>Compaq Computer purchases <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digital_Equipment_Corporation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Equipment Corporation<\/a> for $  9.6 billion. Digital, or DEC, was a pioneering company in the early history of computers from the 1960&#8217;s &#8211; 1980&#8217;s. Unfortunately, as was seen with many companies, they were slow to recognize the rise of the PC which ultimately led to the sell-off of all the company&#8217;s business units, cumulating with the final sale to Compaq. Compaq itself was eventually merged with HP.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/26\/compaq-purchases-dec\/\">Compaq Purchases DEC<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/01\/26\/compaq-purchases-dec\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January 26, 1998 Compaq Computer purchases Digital Equipment Corporation for $ 9.6 billion. Digital, or DEC, was a pioneering company in the early history of computers from the 1960&#8217;s &#8211; 1980&#8217;s. Unfortunately, as was seen with many companies, they were slow to recognize the rise of the PC which ultimately led to the sell-off of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[3101,3102],"class_list":["post-16375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-compaq","tag-purchases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}