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Digital Equipment Corporation was a major American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s...

Timeline of Events

1977

10.25.1977

Digital Equipment Corporation releases OpenVMS V1.0.

1978

5.3.1978

The first unsolicited bulk commercial e-mail (which would later become known as "spam") is sent by a Digital Equipment Corporation marketing representative to every ARPANET address on the west coast of the United States.

1980

9.30.1980

Ethernet specifications are published by Xerox working with Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation.

1998

6.11.1998

Compaq Computer pays $9 billion for Digital Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition.